I hear you. Been doing webdev for over two decades, and I feel the exhaustion of modern tooling, most of which seems overly-complicated for the time involved and learning curve.

But, there are plenty of cool web things exciting me these days:

* FaaS and Serverless Computing - Cloudflare Workers/KV and Google Cloud Run in particular

* Cloud IDEs - Google Cloud Shell Editor (deploys straight to Cloud Run), Cloudflare Workers editor, Replit

* Site Builders - Carrd and Webflow in particular

* Focused libs - Handlebars.js and htmx in particular

* Simpler DevOps tools - WordOps in particular

* Languages - primarily C# .NET, but also using a ton of Node.js; did some Python recently; hoping to learn a little Go and Rust sometime.

Starting, and then launching, tiny side-projects and utilities that I need myself helps keep the fire going.