Isn't a day on HN unless someone complains about web development while pining for the days when they were building command line calculators in COBOL on their mainframes while sipping espresso with Turing and Dijkstra.
I honestly hope so. Sticks are passable enough for addressing today's CRUD apps but I'll readily take scalpels and plasma torches as they become available.
Nope. Web development could (and should) be much cleaner. But it doesn't get there by tirelessly adding to the list of curmudgeonly comments over and over and over. As a web developer who made zero choice for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be in the position they are today and who is wholeheartedly open to seeing the chances that things like wasm could bring it is honestly more tiring reading yet another derisive comment about JavaScript fatigue than it is actually dealing with the churn in the ecosystem.