Agreed. There is nothing wrong with the growing richness of the underlying web platform (the gist of the article). GPS, 3D graphics and what not all enhance the

Agreed. There is nothing wrong with the growing richness of the underlying web platform (the gist of the article). GPS, 3D graphics and what not all enhance the user experience. The challenge is that languages, frameworks, and tooling are are not shielding the developer from the growing complexity. The level of abstraction is rather poor , so that for any any non trivial web application, you quickly do need to know the gory details of CSS, layouts, web components, shadow vs. lite DOM, and so on. I agree with the premise of the article (we can't stop the forward progress of the web ), but we desperately need better tools.