This is hilarious and sarcastic, but there's a hint of reality here. Overly Complex Engineering is a fashionable (and evidently lucrative) technical discipline now, and is almost expected as the default. If you get an interview question "design a web frontend and backend to do X" and you say "Easy, a single LAMP server can do this," it's likely you're not getting the job.
Sarcastic, but I didn't put anything in I thought entirely implausible (and some of it's straight-up normal; I cut off because there was too much normal remaining, actually, and I didn't feel like writing it all out—we still had to take a trip down into the frontend framework's state machine, and back out again!). Looks like others dug into the page and posted their findings, and my made-up bit about telemetry isn't even that far off, LOL—god, Web is a shit-show. But wasting everyone's time with this crap pays the bills....
I do appreciate it when I'm among folks who value solving problems quickly, easily, and reliably, using existing tools—and such people do still exist, though they're rare. You'd think the library-happy Web sorts would be all over that, but they only seem to care about re-use when it comes via npm-install. Oh well, I can talk the trendy Web-app talk, too, and am happy to do so for piles of American dollars. It's not my money getting tossed in a bonfire.
