Second-Guessing the Modern Web
I’m tempted to step back and evaluate this on another level. Our industry is very big, and any industry that gets that big will be able to house a lot of people just for the sake of it.<p>If you think we have a large amount of fresh frontend people, understand they are hired almost with a one to one correspondence with fresh product&#x2F;business people.<p>Modern product development is essentially a polishing job on every component that Twitter Bootstrap or Jquery UI ever invented. Over and over, we dress up a modal, with a slider, with a ‘user flow’, with some tooltips, and so on, and allow the process to masquerade around as real design&#x2F;engineering. There’s so much money in this industry that we can hire entire teams to basically take a Bootstrap component, and theme it. This gets passed on as product development, and from the developer side, it gets passed on as engineering.<p>If this is the level of masquerading occurring, why would a frontend developer ever go ‘what’s the right solution here?’.<p>Something similar is happening on the backend and infrastructure. It too will take on a mask behind devops and data science and start pumping out what are probably straight up SQL queries and cron jobs. This will get passed off as design and engineering as well.<p>We’re too big.