As a 65-year-old developer who started building sites back in 1992, I concur and often long for the days when things were simpler. Then I go back to writing web apis that use an ORM framework and feed angular components from an MVC controller....and that feeling goes away. :)
I'm a web developer, graphic designer, type designer, musician, comicbook-geek, LEGO-collector, food lover … as well as husband and father, located just south of Copenhagen, Denmark.
As a 65-year-old developer who started building sites back in 1992, I concur and often long for the days when things were simpler. Then I go back to writing web apis that use an ORM framework and feed angular components from an MVC controller....and that feeling goes away. :)
I mostly work with Vue nowadays. But I also do a lot of "vanilla projects" without build-tools, as it's way faster for me.