I think its a gateway drug as well. Its just odd that it really doesn’t get much better from beginner -> expert. Expertise in the front end world is largely knowing how not to shoot yourself in the foot.
The unnecessary complexity holds back a lot of people as well. I know plenty of incredibly talented back end people who don’t have the confidence to develop web UIs when comparatively its a simple task (if you remove the always changing complexities of front-end tooling).
I feel like there should be a solution where you can codify this knowledge and share it with others, kind of like a storybook JS for the masses.
I actually launched https://ulluminate.com to help with knowledge sharing. I found myself looking through my bookmarks far too often to share things with friends and coworkers. I wanted a tool where I could segment my bookmarks into private, shared, and public spaces and provide annotations as to why I thought the link was helpful. Also the ability to search a link and domain across the network of public bookmarks will be really cool for discovering like minded people and subjects.
I still have A LOT of work to do on it, but the goal is to make it really valuable for team and peer communication. I think if you use a bookmark extension to navigate your organization's structure, it should stay more up to date than a wiki (at least thats my hope).