One minor point I disagree with is mobile development. For certain apps it's extremely important... But there's a lot of complicated applications that don't wor

One minor point I disagree with is mobile development. For certain apps it's extremely important... But there's a lot of complicated applications that don't work on mobile at all. So if you wanted to support mobile you'd have to design and build two separate applications. That requires a lot of resources and manpower. Another alternative is to hide most of the functionality that won't work well in mobile, but depending on what problems you solve, this could make your application useless. As for the overall topic, I think I agree. It seems to me that server-side technologies are better researched and understood. But then you look at client-side technology, it's chaotic. Building and maintaining user interfaces is hard... Recently I've been playing around with flux and react, and I feel like it's definitely a step in the right direction towards building simple components that can be easily maintained and extended.