DOM manipulation using vanilla JS is now "Low-level web programming"? 💀

anything to do with javascript is "low level". as low as hitting rock bottom.

it's called web development circlejerking

Here I thought low-level web was writing your own browser. Did that; don’t recommend.

This resds to me like HTML is the backend of a higher level Dart abstraction. HTML backends are lower level than the UI frameworks that optionally support them, even if coding directly in JS and HTML feels higher level than coding in the target language of the framework and running it with the native backend. The distinction between higher/lower level is not an ordering outside a particular scenario, and refers only to one thing being implemented in terms of another. QT can be higher level than HTML if it renders to a canvas.