Every few weeks or so someone comes to the DreamWeaver forum with this identical complaint, which has two parts:
1. Web technology has become too complicated
2. Adobe is at least partly to blame, for a variety of reasons, but usually because it made DW more complicated than FrontPage was back in 1996.
People then respond to the frustrated poster with a variety of explanations. The responses given to this post are all good.
In the early days of the web, the web really sucked. It was clunky, butt ugly, and stupid, and no one had yet figured out how to keep it fresh and relevant. Fast forward to today--the web is elegant, beautiful, intelligent, fresh and relevant. All thanks to these newer, better, more complex tools that the poster is complaining about.
Those of us who worked on the web back in the mid 90's were not incompetent (most of us had come from successful careers in print publishing), we simply didn't have the tools that are available today (well, also bandwidth, graphic, and other hardware limitations).
Nancy said:"If you stand still, you're falling hopelessly behind." If you are not comfortable working in a field that is complex and changes rapidly, then don't work on the web.
Actually, this phenomenon of changing software and evolving complexity happens in a lot of fields these days. My son is an engineering draftsman, a job that used to involve a pencil, protractor, and a large sheet of paper. Now it requires knowledge of Autocad, Inventor, SolidWorks, and CATIA. Similarly, consider the boom in medical technology.