[skatanski]

Maybe it's a general comment to both back-end and front-end. To me it seems that down in the trenches coding is getting more complex, even though frameworks hide more and more complexity. Languages and frameworks gain features and they don't necessarily shed old ones. I've been working in C# for near 15 years. Each C# and .net release brings more to the table. Often these are features, which simplify things, at the same time the old ways still work. Googling often returns N solutions, each from a different era. I imagine it can be confusing for newcomers to even start. As for the growing complexity in the world of backend, I think, when needed, the best tool against it, is pragmatism.