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So much of coding is a simple SQL -> HTML string but its mind-blowing how far abstracted we are from this today. Give some credit to PHP for simplicity here.

Something I noticed too that when there is simplicity, there is so many abstracted layers beneath that makes things slow, impossible to debug, and god help you if you if it doesn't do what you need. Things like React + Next.js. If you tried to follow the actual stack traces of what is going on underneath you would die.