> As someone who has been programming for about 25 years now and has always been frustrated by the tendency of software devs, and in particular web devs, to not address the root issues but just scaffold on top of them and try to hide the ugly bits under the carpet, I feel a bit vindicated.

Not sure why you would. It seems like the people who made these compromises were roughly right and the problem only escalated when it also came with a solution.