For me (not your parent commenter) the problem is not that I can't understand things or need help to grasp something new. I have 2 decades of desktop, low-level, server, business programming in bunch of languages and frameworks behind; didn't touch games and 3d though. The problem is that every time I start to read yet another html/css/js tutorial or advanced guide, I get almost physically sick of it. It is like learning [al]chemistry before analytical method appeared. You're presented to the fragmented facts, none of them covering the entire picture, none of them having any design thoughts. For first few times I thought that it is just a bad tutorial, but with time I realized that it's the nature of web. You can't do a right guess there. You can't metaprogram it, because there is no common basis between all the "technologies". You can add new unnecessary flavor though. Millions of failed frameworks represent the supporting evidence for that. It is so detached from programmers reality that even gives "powerful" names to reinvented things: services, routing, reactivity to name a few. Which are simply modules, callbacks and two-point bindings, the insignificant nomenclature under programmer's feet. Most web devs don't even know what real reactivity is and that is was a regular thing to have circular, heavy-threaded formula references as evaluation model in '84 supercalс working on 96Kb RAM. Do you know why it isn't widely used in today's programming? Because you normally have only one place to set your data and only one way to propagate it. You DO NOT need reactivity in a sane design. You have to be aware of your data flow and be able to analyze it. Native programming overwhelms you because it is saturated with disciplines you was never convinced to follow (or allowed to break for local benefit), not because it is twice as old. Just pick few classic programming books to introduce.

Web is long done, you'll never see it being any better than now, or yesterday, or a year ago. The article may be ranty, but it is right that web still reinvents the '90s having 100x processing power at hands. It simply goes nowhere. I don't hope, I know it will be dead some day, because that bubble becomes too heavy to not pop itself.