Ask HN: Has web development really become easier than 10 years ago?

The last 20 years doing consultency, building web applications, the time spend on frontend development seems to be explodong in complexibilty. Not so much feature wise, more technology wise. There is so much noise in that end of the development pipeline that I have a hard time understanding or really seing the value.

So many web applications seems to me to be filled with too much junk (packages, bundlers etc) without really adding value.