Most dev is happening in India now too so there's that. I deal with a few enterprise software solutions that are riddled with bugs and they can't fix them. I know it's cuz they outsourced it to a bunch of constantly rotating pajeet devs .
While the pajeets are certainly a contributing factor, I doubt they are the ones deciding to use 10 MB of Javascript to display 1 KB of text. Those decisions are almost certainly being made by the same kind of people who think living in San Francisco is a good idea. They have no taste and no dignity; they worship whatever is held up as good by their favorite shills/lunatics on the Internet. I'm starting to think it's a status thing. They gain status among their peers by using trendy frameworks and development techniques, not by making things that people like to use. Gaining status helps them get money from (((venture capitalists))), which they then use to build entire companies based on their terrible judgement. The result is an endless parade of useless companies that go nowhere, plus a few that manage to provide a sufficiently useful service that lots of people use them, but the user experience sucks because of all the bad decisions.
This spreads beyond SF through the legions of wannabe SF devs all across the world. These people read Hacker News like my father used to read the local paper. They desperately want to become those clowns dodging human feces as they walk from their wildly overpriced apartments to their soul-destroying jobs, so they try to build any websites they are responsible for in the same manner. They likely daydream about giving a talk at some pointless conference and getting noticed by the aforementioned (((VCs))) so they can build whatever equally pointless company they have in mind.
How do I know? I almost became one of these people. I used to watch the startup scene with great interest. I interviewed at a company in San Francisco. (I didn't get the job, fortunately.) I read Hacker News every day. I read every essay by Paul Graham. I guess it was my incurable intolerance for shoddy or disgusting design that kept me from going over the edge. Node.js in particular was a bridge too far.
This is probably a side effect of the broader trend of turning one's brain off and letting the TV (or equivalent) tell one what to think. What's the difference between using a horrible language and the even more horrible framework du jour because the "experts" tell you to use them and wearing two masks because the "experts" told you to do it? You even get the same retarded flip-flopping, e.g. "JAVASCRIPT BAD" becomes "JAVASCRIPT GOOD" and "RIOTS GOOD" becomes "RIOTS BAD". It's all symptoms of the same underlying societal sickness.
They gain status among their peers by using trendy frameworks and development techniques
I believe that they're all taught this. Asking a modern javascript developer to develop without using a trendy third-party hosted library is like asking a negress to read cursive.
The result is an endless parade of useless companies that go nowhere
Yep. And they all have retarded names that, as a rule, cannot in any way convey what the company actually does.
This is true. I worked at a company and they had a SQL Storage Procedure that had a bug the developer couldn't solve, so they fixed it by canceling out the bug which introduced new problems. 3,000 lines of SQL mess all because someone walked up to the bartender and asked where the bathroom was.
The Pakistani developed website was even worse as the search allowed for SQL injection. Hello, Little Bobby Tables...
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