And that covers:

    - frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs)
    - hosting (cdn, https, domains, autoscaling)
    - database
    - authentication (custom, social logins)
    - blob storage (file uploads, urls, cdn-backed)
    - email
    - payments
    - background jobs
    - analytics
    - monitoring
    - dev tools (CI/CD, staging)
    - secrets

?

Or are you importing a hundred different modules, using a bunch of different services, and just reproducing the IKEA-like system Andrej is complaining about in a language you happen to like?

This is not specific to web application development though. You would need all this for every other kind of application development too.

The person I responded to implied that Andrej is over-complicating things. That all you need is Python and Sqlite.