“I had fifteen years of experience designing for web clients, she had one year, and yet some how, we were in the same situation: we enjoyed the work, but were utterly confused and overwhelmed by the rapidly increasing complexity of it all.”
A brochure site used to be HTML, CSS and an FTP client. Now it needs a build pipeline, a framework and a package manager with a thousand dependencies. The pages look about the same. The complexity serves the toolmakers and the job listings, not the reader.