What do you hate about today's dev practices compared to 10 years ago?

Complex FE builds (anyone who tells you that JavaScript is an interpreted rather than a compiled language is lying — at least as used in 98% of modern apps).

Overreliance on SPAs.

Software that works fine on the developer’s 6-month-old high end workstation and like molasses anywhere else.

The subscription model for EVERYTHING.

The churn. Web apps aren't really THAT different from the PHP + AJAX (or Angular v1) days, but every 2 years we reinvent that whole system from scratch. It's tiring.

A part of me still kinda wishes Microsoft (or some other single big vendor) won out and standardized a set of common APIs/UIs/SDKs, like .NET with WPF or something, rather than the hodgepodge that is the modern web. On one hand it's cool that it's a relatively open ecosystem (vs, say, the mobile app stores), but my god, does the dev ex and UX suffer from the fragmentation. And it's not like modern web apps are really any substantially better than 90s desktop app.

Actual good UX was thrown out the window when it became a focus and profession. It's all wrong now.