[luxphl]

Check out the sibling comments. Complex does not mean hard to use. My car is complex, but it's pretty easy to get a driver's license.

Gatekeeping refers to making it seem like it's too hard to get into and therefore not worth trying for beginners/non-technical folk.

[jrochkind1]

So by "gatekeeping", you mean that you think it just seems harder to get into, but actually isn't harder to get into?

What do you think makes it falsely seem harder to get into for beginners, when it isn't really?

[cutemonster]

Maybe the docs new devs find, focus on fancy complicated libraries, instead of simple plain html or just a bit js

Writing such "more complicated" blog posts makes one look more talented?

I don't know