[dmbass]

I think a lot of the "complexity" of web development comes from the fact that most of us are just YOLOing to get something that "mostly works" out the door. For the most part, lives don't depend on our systems and the standard for performance is much lower than something like a video game or operating system thanks to the legacy of dialup and ads.

[moron4hire]

To be frank, you have no idea what "most" people are doing, you only know your small sphere of experience. For example, I've worked on several numerical simulation systems where the results were used for safety ratings of different industrial processes. This was all on the Web, and it honestly did fit for the Web.

The market for all types software is huge and we only ever hear from a very small section of it. It's why I don't take the concept of programming-language-oriented "communities" too seriously. There is a huge body of dark-matter programmers out there--probably 90% in any particular language--who do not participate in the meetups and conferences and discussion forums. They just work and then go home at the end of the day to do something completely unrelated to programming.