The guitar is one of my favorite physical things in the world. It boggles my mind how six steel strings and a hollow piece of wood can make such beautiful music. This simple wood-and-string combination provides entertainment, calms the mind, relieves stress and anxiety, and brings people together.
I’ve been in the web design space for over a decade, and I’ve seen how websites have evolved. Sure, they look better and have more features—but they’ve also become a complicated mess. It used to be that you could host a server at home, write some HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript, and you’d have a website.
Now? You have to deal with layers of complexity—cloud hosting setups, countless web frameworks (each with their own learning curve), front end, back end, security, headless CMSs, and more. Even in WordPress, tools like Elementor and Bricks offer tons of functionality, but they come with so much complexity that using them requires its own kind of expertise.
And now, with the rise of AI, future developers might not even understand how things work under the hood. Everything—from the server to the codebase—is preconfigured, abstracted, and automated. And honestly, that scares me.
But maybe that’s just the nature of tech. It evolves fast—and complexity comes with it. Still, I find myself longing for simplicity. Just like a guitar doesn’t need a thousand features to make beautiful music, maybe a website doesn’t need to be overbuilt to make an impact.
Simple is beautiful. And maybe that’s still worth fighting for.