This entire comment is just nonsense. Web development is equivalent to any other level of the computing stack. That is, there are good developers working on solving complex problems, and bad developers churning out mediocre software that doesn't really do anything "meaty".

I see absolutely no evidence that web development is any less technically challenging than any other field – the fact that there are loads of developers churning out cookie-cutter CRUD apps doesn't mean that's the whole field.