I read the article, and while it is easy to see where he is coming from, I remembered the WTF the first time I encountered web programming more than a decade ago. The idea of GET vs POST didn't make any sense at all to a person who wanted to put something on the screen and capture its value.

Some of these higher level frameworks dispense with get and post. This means that to an old timer, there is suddenly nothing left to build on, and this is why the learning curve appears high again.