| Do web developers find ways to create work for themselves? You allude to it below when you say "zillions of hours". There is a significant amount of money moving through the "web development industry". People are getting paid to write things that suck. The internet actually has made leaps and bounds in terms of what can be delivered over it to the masses. But the "web" has become a cesspool of redirects, overstuffed headers and pages crammed with beacons, ad server links and ad-related Javascript, accessible through ad-sales-company-sponsored software ("web browsers") to run the ad-related Javascript. If and when users grow tired of web advertising, the entire system is a risk of a serious correction. Again, significant and increasingly larger sums of money are moving through the web ad and user data collection cesspool so no one really cares how poor the quality of the "content" becomes. And you want to learn to orient your mind to this "new way of thinking"? Maybe you are not resisting change. Maybe you are resisting stupidity. Your time may be better spent focusing on backend development. Today's "backend" may be tomorrow's frontend. All that "content" can easily be delivered without a single line of Javascript and without using search-engine-ad-sales-company-sponsored software. |