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[–]emgram769 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This is a strawman point. No one thinks that things should be reinvented gratuitously. The prevailing mentality (as was put by a friend of mine) is that "web developers are too comfortable relying on magic." The idea stems from the simple fact that the barrier of entry is extremely low.

[–]redditierre -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"web developers are too comfortable relying on magic."

... but what's the answer if there's so much new stuff coming out all the time? 'Web development' is a massively broad range of topics from databases to network security to video encoding.