No they aren't. Developers think their a painful domain because they are the ones that introduce the complexity in the name of the customer who doesn't care, to increase the developers salary in some kind of crazy Ponzi scheme.
The tools we have in the browser are excellent up to a point. I think the challenge comes when you need to create reusable abstractions around them several layers deep.
There are tools which help manage these challenges really well, like state charts, but they aren’t perfect and they come with their own challenges. The reality (I think) is that UIs can present quite incredible complexity, and creating tools with approachable APIs to help tame the complexity is a legitimately huge challenge.
It could be that I’m a bad software developer (most days I’m pretty sure there’s some truth in that), but I’m passionate and spend a lot of time deep in this space and exploring ways to make it better. It isn’t rocket science, but it isn’t digging holes either. The react team is a bunch of smart people and they’re doing good work on solving a tough challenge.
I don’t see a Ponzi scheme at all. Sorry if I’ve missed some sarcasm or something here - feel free to disregard if that’s the case (or if it isn’t, too)
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