It's all the extra requirements, all the extra engineering that needs to be added that is IMO ruining web applications. Sure, they have huge benefits, but I hate when the application is simple but the backend is so overly engineered that it takes a week to completely build a fully fleshed out application. You have to organize your components, add styled-components.js, make sure it's compatible with mui.js, create test cases for each component, setup a DB and integrate it to hold all copy as well as any input from the customer, make sure that it's accessible (this part I admit that it's important), make sure your test cases always pass, setup routing tables, add analytics, add pixel campaign api, squash git conflicts, integrate some other weirdo apis that marketing and leadership pulled from some obscure service no one has ever heard off, debug some weird edge case error caused by a node dependency 3 levels down, present the finished website to leadership only to be destroyed and now you have to redo 75% of the site with leadership changes... rinse and repeat.
That's how supply and demand works. If there are more Muslims wanting to buy kufis, than Jewish wanting to buy kippahs, the kufis will be more expensive than the kippahs. And add that there is no competition when selling in prisons (aka monopoly) and the price goes up in orders of magnitude.
Tbh, all of web development has become this... efficient. I remember the days where I could create a website in PHP and have it done in a couple of hours (per page), and now the only way I can do that would be using AI and going full on "vibe coding" mode.
Honestly this is scarier than something bad happening in either of those two other events. But I agree... as they say "the revolution will not be televised"
Exactly that. Also, don't forget that every chance they get they say "a man posing as a police officer" and they then describe that he was dressed exactly like a cop including a badge and cop car
Lol Honda just beat them at their own game