[ruduhudi]

Web development is complex and has always been. 15 years ago you'd deal with complex hacks to work around the table based layout mess, the horrible browser APIs, javascript's prototype inheritance, Apache configuration and, god forbid, networks of .htaccess files.

10 years ago you'd deal with communicating stuff between language borders, what interaction to handle in javascript, what in ruby/php/perl/whatever and how to interact between the languages.

Now you deal with build processes, transpilers, bundle size optimization, framework configuration and broken react state updates.

It's intrinsically complex, deal with it.

[phendrenad2]

I think that developers will always complicate things to the point where they can't complicate it any further. If something is already complex (due to browser incompatibilities, weird HTML/CSS/JS bugs, etc.) then developers can't raise the complexity much. Now that those issues have mostly been resolved, we've invented build systems and weird declarative/functional frameworks to bring it back up to that same complexity level.