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Concur. Leaning into learned helplessness is not the solution to these problems. At some point, we need people to take accountability and responsibility for themselves. I'm done being developer IT.

We can, management just insists on hiring JS kids to do it a thousands times more complicated. "Just use a sane PHP framework" will get you fired now. Alas.

The problem is thinking that all of these things are different domains when they really aren't. The web browser is just a program; its job is to fetch resources and render HTML. If you know how HTTP and HTML/CSS work, you can absolutely make great web applications.

But this requires knowledge and expertise, and also maybe not shoehorning an entire application framework into what was designed to be a collection of hyperlinked documents. I suspect this has more to do with money than anything else... the web is dead, long live the web.