I agree.

I was in the web dev world early enough to also be uploading pages and files via FTP to production for high profile clients.

In the last 3-5 years with the addition of gulp, sass, npm, etc. it has all become way too complicated and saturated. I found myself with way to many options and worse - opinions - to filter through, learn, and master enough to use in production. Mostly this learning would be done in my own time outside of work and I really started to lose interest/drive to do it.