The web development might not be perfect, and yes it’s evolving very fast, but it is not worse than it used to be.

I’m a bit disappointed in the article. With the title I expected to read something about development that is not web (system, embedded…), and it made me curious. Sadly it isn’t; the author is criticizing an ecosystem they left a while ago, and regret not to be able to keep up with it. Pretty normal, isn’t it?

It’s very easy not to be able to keep up with something you’re not a part of anymore. We shouldn’t expect things to stay the same forever. It’s okay to take a step back and reflect on how things are (yes, maybe web dev becomes too complicated in certain ways), but it’s hard to judge when you’re completely out of it (the author stopped web development “in 2009”).