> It's at the point now where you can't even create a basic website, to modern standards, without spending months of work to develop it, or without spending 95% of your time on StackOverflow wrestling with bugs and complexities of 7 different pieces of framework that you're trying to get working together. It's utter insanity.

I am interested in your experience and why you think this? It's not true at all from my experience. In the past, making a basic message board would have been pretty difficult. Now it can be done in days. Same with Twitter clones etc.

What type of basic website takes months to develop?