This takes me back to the days when so much of web apps was tied to non-web things. Skeupomorphisms were pretty good UX, but also the fact that layouts looks like ads or newspapers, trying to conserve room and increase information density. The websites themselves weren't much in the way of a destination, rather they tied you into other real world things: family, computers systems, hobbies. They were relevant only as…
It's also become much less accessible to your average every-day person. I remember in 2001 my brother's community college in rural America taught HTML and Flash development. Not only could you learn to make websites quickly, but you were learning technology that was exactly what you would be using when working at a company. You could argue the technology is better these days, but it's certainly not more clear to newc…
But even so, with things like netlify, expo, etc. creating an interactive web or mobile app is not any more difficult.
In fact, with netlify, I could have a website publicially visible without all the horrible custom web management uis of the past (like cpanel).
If all that is needed is a simple html page, that’s literally minutes of following a few instructions and you are up in running.
Perhaps the problem is that there are so many options now that we have paralysis from too many choices. But the role of the teacher is to find the right tools that enable this easily.