why do we use those massive frameworks and libraries for all the stuff we make?

i have a feeling that we (all code-related people) like to complicate things more than they are. i dunno if we make this for ego shit, to make our work look more impressive, but this pisses me off.

back in 2016, when i wrote my first lines in C to control some pins in a PIC microcontroller, my mind blew up. i was just thinking "how da heck did i do this with these 20 LOC?" maybe it was because i was just a teenager with nothing much in mind, but there was something more about it. i mean, 20 lines of code gave me the power to turn on some LEDs and make them blink, and dude, all that stuff was my creation. the protoboard with the LEDs, resistors, and buttons was >MY< creation. this made me feel overwhelmed.

nowadays, if you are a trainee or a junior, you have to build amazing projects with animations, integrations, mapping, storage management, following design patterns, using a consistent uikit. and dude, this is not supposed to be this way. things need to be more fun. i mean, i know some people really like to know all these things before starting a job or something like that, but i think that most people dont think this way.

i miss the weird projects, weird ideas, that kinda stuff that puts your mind into "how is this shit working and making sense?" and its not a nostalgia thing. those people still exist, but i think these guys are "hiding" behind a wall of devs that just wanna be corporate employees. and again, theres nothing wrong with the corporate guys, but dude, you need to have fun too. i mean, you are writing (or delegating to some shit text generator) code for a living. make it cool sometimes, do what you want, explore, dont let your curiosity die. dont let that child behavior to build, destroy, break, rebuild die.

keep it simple, keep it weird. keep it real.