[lambdaone]

Exactly. You don't need to really know how to program to use web frameworks, and web programmers are much cheaper than systems engineers. It's a no-brainer in short-term business terms. But there's a always a price to be paid for decisions like this, and this overhead is it.

Experience of similar tradeoffs tells us it will only get worse over time, and LLM-generated web programming will make the whole process get even worse even faster.