As someone who is relatively young, these "over-complications" have been the norm for me, which is one the reasons why I find it difficult to relate to HN especially in the development of web apps.

HN's perspective on FE Development is that it should be a meager skill that can be on-boarded with ease, and there is frustration with frameworks (most notably, React), because what was once done with HTML/CSS and a sprinkle of JQuery has exploded into an actual field and specialization.

And, personally, I think it's warranted.

The explosion in demand for what the front end requires is just in correlation with the specialization of the field.

15 years ago, we were just doing blog posts with form submissions, now, we're trying to pave the way so that applications like Photoshop can be accessible in the web.

HN is getting old. There's no doubt about it.

And the young ones are starting to lap you guys.

I just hope I don't grow as bitter and hostile when my brain no longer can pick up new esoteric material with ease as some of ya'll.