Comment by always_good

Craftsmen should understand the tools they use.

We expect it in every other industry.

Why do people like you always want to suggest that web developers shouldn't have to learn the basics of the tools they use every day? This is page one HTTP stuff.

This is the anti-intellectualism in our field. Where people are so used to finding a YouTube video tutorial for the exact thing they want to do that anything that's inherently hard (like client development) or requires some extra knowledge to do correctly is somehow shitty and needs to be reworked. More and more often it's somehow everything's fault but the craftman's.

It's that mentality that's coasting parts of our field into code monkey cost center positions. Go somewhere like /r/webdev and watch how unresourceful the beginners are and how bad the advice is.