As someone who started a few years earlier, and speaking as full-stack programmer, as it's called today, I can tell you it was always like that - an ever increasing complication graph. However, I like it. I don't miss the tcl, perl, coldfusion, php files all mixing everything up. I don't miss FTP as a means of deployment. I don't miss configuring the first Apache webserver, or setting up the Sun servers and using csv text files as databases.

I embrace the complexity because it's there for a reason. Most of it. Some of it at least. It solves problems we already forgot we had. And it's cyclical. We'll soon forget what the problem was, go back to square one, and given some time arrive back to where we are today and then some.

My advice - embrace the complex, reject the complicated.