[smaudet]

Exactly. The one thing I learned about web dev in 10+ years is, all (or most of) the opinions are wrong.

Where we were in the early 2000s wasn't bad, it was actually pretty slick compared to all the "shiny" we have today.

There will always be problems, but the idea that to solve the problems we should use Yet Another Cool Library/Language is just incorrect. Sometimes its good to refactor/rewrite, but often the rewrite is just as bad (or worse) as the old thing. You should have a very compelling reason to do so (at least for large scale rewrites, removing tech debt is OK).