I think the low status comes mostly from sheer volume, with contribution from the bad tools.

There are more people developing for web than anything else. The barrier for entry is very low (free, and you can legit get started in notepad and edge if you’re a kid who don’t know better). And of course, investors demand shorter deadlines and more profits, so the already strained system just gets worse.

The result is tired, overworked, and sometimes undertrained devs making boo-boos that might not have been made otherwise.

Whatever the “current thing” is will always have the most new devs, the most new code, and the most new bugs. Not their fault, it’s just the numbers playing out.