[randusername]

My read is that there's a crowd that is unimpressed with mechanistic changes when in their view there is a cultural issue.

From the outside looking in, web dev has this frantic wild west energy to it. Mutability, dynamic typing, standards changing constantly, frameworks changing constantly, continuous delivery, CDNs, live A/B campaigns, large numbers of dependencies, sensitive user data spread out across a lot of infrastructure.

I'm not saying that's an accurate view and I don't think "I told you so" is the right attitude, but I can understand the place it comes from.