Current generation of young developers has been brainwashed by tech influencers

Sometimes people just go for path of least resistance. Hosted APIs are convenient

I don’t think it follows that people are afraid of complexity or have been brainwashed (?!?)

It can be read the opposite way: "don't reinvent wheels unless/until they're essential to your goal". Selling physical stuff? Perhaps the exact configuration for the eshop's nginx is not essential (yet). Making subscription-based software? Perhaps the exact method of recurrent billing in Latvia is not essential (yet).

There's massive infrastructure to help with anything (for a fee), so that you don't have to do EVERYTHING yourself. If things work out well, a service might become a bottleneck, but until then, you can focus on your core feature. (And of course, "massive" also means "bureaucracy," which opens the opportunity to do Some Thing your way, faster, better, and perhaps with a profit.)

Tailwinds screams this to me..

It's inline style with but different. No no.. it's composable classes.. So it's scss. A tech that's nearly 20 years old.

I find it funny that most of the hype is around fixing a problem that almost no one had. But now, things like this are a must on the old CV.