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I closed my web dev business just three years ago. I found that many people who work with the web don't want to do the work to understand how it all works. They think there must be a library somewhere to do "that" while doing "that" is simple enough using standard components and features.

Another issue is people basing their fears of things in the past. Yes, the web was more difficult to do fancy things but often they're trying to push the web to do things it just couldn't do back then. Now you can using basic, built-in functionality and it's often easier that way.



I found the same at my last two tech jobs (S&P 100 and 500). People hate getting their hands dirty with fundamental web dev.

My favorite part of web dev is working directly with the DOM, vanilla JS, and using minimal dependencies (if any).

I feel like the web equivalent of an assembly programmer these days, but apparently nobody is interested in hiring for this sort of thing anymore.




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