Comment by afavour

I think the core issue is that the platform was bad for a long time so tools sprung up to make it more manageable (from jQuery all the way up to React). Now the platform is much better but it’s too late: a meaningful share of web developers don’t really understand the DOM.

I’ve interviewed an incredible number of junior developers that really don’t understand what’s going on beneath the React level at all. I blame a lot of this on code bootcamps that never even tried to explain the fundamentals. Over time they’ve collapsed and AI is going to overwhelm that basic level of understanding. But a lot of it still persists.