>>>But it's not a skill that makes a good web developer. Web development is, in the most part, the easiest kind of development. In 15 years of doing this stuff

>>>But it's not a skill that makes a good web developer. Web development is, in the most part, the easiest kind of development. In 15 years of doing this stuff I can state with some authority that 99% of websites are simple CRUD applications. Web development doesn't challenge your coding skills much. Occasionally it does, but only if you get in to either a product company or an agency that does fun things. Most don't. Quite baseless, actually. While you just think web development as general CRUD but there are many aspects of web development that are challenging. It might not challenge you for smart algorithms, low level optimizations, or a clever recursion but what about a elegant UI, thinking about user experience, optimizing server performance, reducing page load time and many more. Saying that "X programming is easy, real programming is Y" is a bit immature to be honest.