> A friendly PSA that you can still, in the year of our lordt 2019, create a static site with an HTML file deployed to shared hosting over FTP. You could also create a dynamic site with some PHP thrown in there.
Honestly that sounds like hell, we may live in a spiderweb of complexity but it's still a long way from the primitive web of the 90's which provided every conceivable kind of way to shoot yourself in the foot.
The hidden issue is that new web products are becoming increasingly complex due to tight competition, but businesses somehow do not expect that increased complexity means there is a need for larger teams and budgets. All this cruft in the modern web build pipeline is stuff made by developers, for developers, to help us navigate the impossible tasks handed to us in impossible timeframes. Some of these additions are very welcome, but the proliferation of complexity in development in general is mostly due to teams and budgets and time estimates not scaling accordingly.
Honestly that sounds like hell, we may live in a spiderweb of complexity but it's still a long way from the primitive web of the 90's which provided every conceivable kind of way to shoot yourself in the foot.
The hidden issue is that new web products are becoming increasingly complex due to tight competition, but businesses somehow do not expect that increased complexity means there is a need for larger teams and budgets. All this cruft in the modern web build pipeline is stuff made by developers, for developers, to help us navigate the impossible tasks handed to us in impossible timeframes. Some of these additions are very welcome, but the proliferation of complexity in development in general is mostly due to teams and budgets and time estimates not scaling accordingly.