"URLs are still a killer feature."

I'd argue they are under attack by all the url shorteners out there creating a mass grave of dead links.

"User expectations on the rise...What websites are being asked to do is rising. Developers are being asked to build very complicated things very quickly and have them work very well and very fast."

This is so absolutely true. I applaud this part because most of the stakeholders on my projects have no idea what it takes these days and expectations are not reasonably set from the get-go or forgotten along the way. I work with a woman that dismisses my work as "well it's just a website" and then regurgitates a TedTalk quote. Quite often, as I approach ten years in this field - as a developer (and often designer), I imagine myself quitting it all and becoming a firefighter.

CSS preprocessing will slowly fade away.

Not soon enough.

Speaking of web development, I would also like to touch on the topic of using artificial intelligence in software development. Here are some examples related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in orthodontic software. This page has more details about this https://triare.net/insights/orthodontic-software/ , but I would like to focus on the main points, such as: 1. Artificial intelligence helps analyze dental images and create accurate treatment plans. 2. AI allows predicting treatment outcomes using patient data to personalize treatment plans. 3. AI and MO automate routine tasks and improve the efficiency of an orthodontic practice. If you are interested in learning more about this, I encourage you to visit the website I shared.

At present, Front-end developer is such as artist who has quite a knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript as his tools on a large canvas called the internet. There are many ideas which are still in infant stage, which will shape up in future and so will the web. We the Front-end programmers will be required to place certain ideas into well established visual stories.