It is simpler and more lucrative and will take almost anybody right now, organizations cant find devs and they are always rushed because the space is so much faster than the rest of tech
lucky for you, ideology isn't a luxury you can afford to have compared to comfortable web2 devs that talk themselves out of everything, go there and figure out what they want
From a technological standpoint, how is it significantly different from "Web2"? Seems to me like it's essentially the same tech we've used for decades with some usage of the metamask API thrown in.
The primary difference is frequently the use of the library web3.js or some other equivalent for the respective network
Metamask browser extension is one of many apps that listen for web3.js calls and helps the browser connect to the nearest node on the configured network
Its basically the same tech but less of it, like I mentioned, it’s simpler. No product has to track user sessions across a massive funnel to sell their data or impress investors salivating over the potential of selling data, and the calls to action are all direct payments, so frontends are simpler.
It was made for the main EVM called Ethereum, but other EVMs use this as well, things can be slightly different on other EVMs
https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js
https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/v1.7.1/
The web3 concept extends beyond EVMs, as the term has mostly begin meaning “connect to nearest nodes instead of your own backend server” and so other distributed networks have their own equivalent but not typically with the web3.js library, but some other way to communicate with the nodes via RPC
You can get grants to contribute to development for making libraries like web3 (but thats probably the least lucrative thing to do)
The more lucrative thing would be to contract with projects that need their frontends built, or smart contracts deployed to these nodes (that the frontend interacts with)
so I just write the accurate answers for the silent lurkers really