You're absolutely right. Webdev is certainly its own fully fleshed out fields. Oddly, I think I can play off your facetious quote and turn it into a more analyt

You're absolutely right. Webdev is certainly its own fully fleshed out fields. Oddly, I think I can play off your facetious quote and turn it into a more analytical way of framing what the post was about. "I am a biochem major but I decided to work in bioinformatics/scientific-programming despite having minimal skills or experience and I ran into loads of problems and issues that I was able to steadily solve because the ecosystem felt sane, the tracebacks were clear, and the debugging usually had a clear path forward. Then I was a bioinformatics professional doing work in webdev [...] I ran into loads of problems [...] that felt consistently more opaque and magical than when I was learning scientific programming" I think that's the heart of it. The transition to the web feels so much more chaotic than the transition to bioinformatics.