Right. But this also tends to make us forget sometimes that those things aren't always a big deal. It's the distinction between solving an immediate problem vs. building a proper solution.

(That such one-off solution tends to become a permanent fixture in an organization - or household - is unfortunately an unsolved problem of human coordination.)

> and realise that actual coding is just better.

It is, if you already know how to do it. But then we overcompensate in the opposite direction, and suddenly 90% of the "actual coding" turns into dealing with build tools and platform bullshit, at which point some of us (like myself) look back at spreadsheets in envy, or start using LLMs to solve sub-problems directly.

It's actually unfortunate, IMO, that LLMs are so over-trained on React and all kinds of modern webshit - this makes them almost unable to give you simple solutions for anything involving web, unless you specifically prompt them to go full vanilla and KISS.