[supakeen]

I feel that over the years of doing things related to web development I actually have to Google less.

Frameworks change, idioms change, but the web itself has largely remained stable (it's still HTTP, even if we now sometimes use HTTP/2). The same security concepts apply.

I feel like I can authoratively answer on more subjects than I could 10 years ago.

Maybe this is mostly related to front-end frameworks? We've only really had one big shakeup in the backend and that's that for the past decade or so we've all moved towards preferring async code (yay Python3k).

[ehnto]

I would agree. Frontend ecosystems and idioms have changed frequently, each time adding a new layer of concepts. Backend architecture has progressed but the concepts are pretty stable. Caching, authentication, roles, models, interpolated templates and so on. Same toolkit but more refined.

[Waterluvian]

I think it's like a chemist needing to reference the periodic table less as they inherently memorize more of it. That's not the hard part of chemistry. Looking up call signatures, APIs and common patterns is not the hard part of software development.