I agree that our current tooling requires more "rocket science" than it should to do ordinary things. I'm not sure how to fix the entire industry, but the first step to solving a problem is admit there is one.

Early cars were hard to learn, drive, and maintain. Over time they got better via trial and error by manufacturers. The desktop IDE's of the early 90's were like this, but got better over time (until web ruined their market). However, the web is still stuck in 1903: simple things are esoteric. Perhaps because too many other things about "cars" keep changing? Something is wrong. CRUD web dev is a mess.