Re: The problem is easy to express
It doesn't help that all of these frameworks, libraries, toolkits, etc. all put a gigantic Smiley Face all over their web site and documentation. "FooLib makes YOUR_PROBLEM_HERE so easy! And it's better than BarLib!"
Then they demonstrate how easy it is to do something that's stupidly easy already.
Unremarked upon is the 12.75GB of third-party libraries their framework, library, toolkit, etc. pull in as dependencies, which you barely even see scroll past when you run their recommended Yarn/npm/Composer/pip/etc. one liner to grab all that stuff. Or, they just tell you to download and use their stupid freaking Docker recipe.
"It's so easy!" No it isn't. It never is. And your shiny happy people attitude is giving impressionable young developers hope and optimism, when what they should be feeling is despair and cynicism. This modern drive towards acceptance and unity and inclusiveness is killing development. Developers should be angry, bitter, hateful towards users, and above all deeply skeptical of anything new. Security becomes super easy when nobody is allowed to do anything.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
