Re: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
The issue is probably more the opposite. Over my 16 or so years as a Web Dev I've interviewed more than my fair chunk of comp-sci grads who looked great on paper, but knew absolutely nothing about the specifics of web development. It's all very well knowing how to build factories and decorator classes, but if you don't know what SEO is...
Also, and I keep beating this drum, JavaScript is a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver. Is JavaScript a perfect language? No, but, fundamentally it's fine and good luck making a modern web site without it. The problem with JavaScript stems from people using it as panacea for all of the web's supposed shortcomings. When Web Developers simply grab Vue, Bootstrap, Tailwind and whatever else the framework-du-jour is, and slap together something that they have no idea about the internal workings of.
Learn your craft and don't rely on other people to do your work for you.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
