[imbnwa]

As someone who started out in this profession in their early 30s, it was made clear very quickly, both by observation and shared wisdom, that it was completely possible to go one's entire career never getting below the level of gluing business code together with the adhesive of some framework, i.e. never learning how to design a system or think from the 'bottom' of a solution.

While its arguably more accessible than ever, you can quickly find yourself swimming in a shallow pool if you're not careful where your first job is, unless you have the free time and comportment to swim towards the deeper end on your own. And the larger magnitude that this occurs at, the greater the stranglehold of most devs to some well-funded framework and tooling.

So I applaud reminders like this that ask to just take a step back from time-to-time and maybe provide ourselves a new opportunity before reaching for $BIG_FRAMEWORK when the project is a few views w/ some buttons and an input on them. There has to be some balance between the utter pragmatism and curiosity and exploration that builds skills to have a healthy demo of devs.

I routinely see this second-hand classist complaint about 'JavaScript devs ruining software' (particularly w/ Electron in hand, even though the most used Electron apps are probably worked on by high-tier devs) but really the source of that concern is the market desiring that devs be more or less replaceable for the most part and the skillsets follow that. You can't break that without some disruption to the Framework-Industrial Complex.