> The quality of developers has gone down in the past 10 years
Well, there we go. Why would that be? It seems a very sad state of affairs. A genuine question: what has happened here? Constructively, we need frameworks for different skills - why are we expecting designers and UI experts to deal with dependency management? Let's let them do what they are good at.
"Developers" is too wide a term, for a start. Cutting through the abstraction and thinning down the frameworks so we can achieve the same thing with less is a very different discipline to making a site look nice. Let's all work together.
This is good, and it works well. The issue (as others may have pointed out) is not that simple apps _can't_ be produced, it's that they _won't be accepted_ when they are. The same thing happened to TCL/Tk ... it "doesn't look right" so is dismissed. By and large, the driving force seems to be those who want to pay for "sexy dashboards", usually but not limited to those whose primary motivation is initial impact. Aesthetics are everything - functionality is secondary. Snake oil sells. Things that "look old" are laughed out of the room. It's unhealthy.
Well, there we go. Why would that be? It seems a very sad state of affairs. A genuine question: what has happened here? Constructively, we need frameworks for different skills - why are we expecting designers and UI experts to deal with dependency management? Let's let them do what they are good at.
"Developers" is too wide a term, for a start. Cutting through the abstraction and thinning down the frameworks so we can achieve the same thing with less is a very different discipline to making a site look nice. Let's all work together.