I think that could have been worded much more nicely, but I get the OPs objection - it's sad kids are getting taught "this is the way to do things" and have no idea there was a better cleaner way.

I don't think this is the standard 'oh assembly in my granddads day, c in my dads day, ruby in my day, these young tigers and their js' either, there is no benefit to modern frameworks besides vendor lockin, which is an antibenefit. Its mostly a heaping pile that just seems to have more bugs and generally is making the web a horrible place.