" The complicated web is here because users insist on interaction, "

OR - the means by which we produce systems is vastly more complicated than it needs to be.

In other words: HTML is designed for nice, light pages, but it's otherwise a steaming hot mess upon which to build single-page apps etc..

We are building the future on a few layers of archaic tools and the result is massively leaky abstraction.

So yes - our toolsets will inevitably expand to make all sorts of useless complexity - that will always be the case.

But for doing basic/cores stuff, it should be possible to avoid the trap.