[insin]

I was around for that era (I may have made an involuntary noise when Zeldman once posted something nice about a thing I made), but being averse to "abstraction in general" is a completely alien concept to me as a software developer.

[Klonoar]

Yes, but I'm in so many words stating that that particular era of web dev was notorious for the discussion of "is this software engineering or not".

It's just such a different concept/vibe/whatever compared to modern frontend development. Brad Frost is another notable person in this overall space who's written about the changes in the field over the years.