This highlights the problem with web dev quite nicely. Not doubt you weren't really just making some text in to a link. I know the sort of thing bootcamps do, so you were probably installing and learning React, displaying a set of components, implementing React Router, and figuring out how to update app state based on the browser's History API. All with a template library that was a terrible choice for learning (because it didn't have docs). You could summarize that as "making a bit of text a link", but that's glossing over the details.

What you were really doing was learning component orchestration, reactive state management, and a browser API. Why wouldn't that take a week?

So the problem with web dev is actually that it's really, really easy to trivialize. You can make hard things sound like they should be very straightforward because they look a lot like something simple from the past. And when people find that they're not really doing the simple thing any more they complain because the new, harder way of doing something (which is actually doing something completely different eg reactive state management and in-browser routing vs asking the browser to do a GET) is hard.