Thanks for a lesson on how the web works, but I'm already quite familiar with it. Your long answer proves my point about its needless complexity and layer upon layer of historical cruft. Can the complexity be buried under various frameworks and toolkits? Sure, to some extent. But not entirely. Browser inconsistencies always manage to sneak through forcing the developer to learn the entire stack.
If you do know that much, then I'd think painting the ecosystem as beyond understanding seems a little disingenuous! A little sorry for the textwall, it was mainly intended for outsiders considering webdev and got re-purposed into a reply to you.
