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Webdev has always been shit. Anybody remember xhtml? From the very beginning, everything the w3 standards body touches has been a design by committee nightmare. The latest generation is just more of the same.

That said, it's not going anywhere anytime soon. "Because it makes lives easier for developers" is not a valid reason for most end users to change their habits.

Personally, I'm banking on better tooling. Most single page webapps today are just more complicated versions of fancy UX on top of an excel spreadsheet. So why are there no graphical design tools that let you visually set up the application, visually see where the data comes from and where it goes and then spits out html, css and react code? The state of the art in code generation has come a long way since dreamweaver.