Sure, web apps 10 years ago looked and worked largely the same as current ones, but they were usually monolithic and custom mountains of JS which were difficult to write, deploy and maintain. Few organizations could deploy something like Gmail.
So a good chunk of this emerging complexity tries to improve web developer productivity (at the cost of stack complexity and fragility). It's the infamous indirection treadmill, laser focused on a single thing: overall productivity and fast delivery of the final product by low skilled employees.
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Sure, web apps 10 years ago looked and worked largely the same as current ones, but they were usually monolithic and custom mountains of JS which were difficult to write, deploy and maintain. Few organizations could deploy something like Gmail.
So a good chunk of this emerging complexity tries to improve web developer productivity (at the cost of stack complexity and fragility). It's the infamous indirection treadmill, laser focused on a single thing: overall productivity and fast delivery of the final product by low skilled employees.