It's great to start out and become productive quickly, but ultimately a web developer needs to learn those eccentricities if they want to work on more complex and interesting projects. jQuery is a good stepping stone.

Same here. Overused it after just starting and now am moving on to a more powerful albeit all encompassing framework (Angularjs specifically). I still use jquery in non-angular projects as a time saving measure when for whatever reason I'm forced to keep hours low; I'm freelance and occasionally have to stick to quotes. But for animation and effects nearly always use CSS3 exclusively, it's hw accelerated and now widely supported enough to rely on. It was and still is a nice pair of training wheels and still has a place in time constrained projects.

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I wonder if it's reached a point where abuse of power is regular, or if it always has been and it's only the fact that nearly everyone carries a camera.

I don't necessarily think of it as being beyond your abilities as much as outside of the scope of your abilities; is managing inherently more difficult than developing? For some people sure, but I think perhaps looking at the career ladder hierarchically is part of what leads us into this. My boss is not a great coder (he started out coding) but he is a great negotiator, salesman and organizer. It takes all sorts, right?

me. Glad to have cleared that up for y'all.

Thanks Obama