Websites have always been bad. In fact, they are probably better, these days, than they used to be. Web designers have traditionally not really been engineers, as such, so we can't really expect engineering discipline from them.

Despite that, I feel like Web designers are a bit more disciplined, these days, than the days of yore. It may be because the industry has matured, and there's now a prevalence of knowledge on the matter (as well as a lot of tools and frameworks that are actually pretty good).

The actual software behind them, that said tools and frameworks connect to, on the other hand...