>The author saying “Computers aren’t fun anymore” and then whining about web development is like me proclaiming that Earth isn’t fun anymore because I’m tired of my bedroom.

I'd say it's more analogous to saying: Earth isn't fun anymore because I'm tired of North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Web development takes the lion's share of computing people pay for which translates to the work people will do (we need money for survival). There are opportunities outside of it but they're few and far in between and highly competitive because few people want to deal with the monstrosity web development has turned into.

I've worked in niche industries that typically avoid touching web development for quite awhile and even I'm being pressured to reimagine these efforts as web applications, containizered, and deployed as microservices even when that approach is non-sensical in context. It's pretty difficult to avoid anymore from my experience. It used to be incredibly easy.