This is so true. The dirty secret of web design is that it is incredibly badly designed itself. HTML grew over attempted rivals like Flash because you could view source, copy and evolve things and unlike Flash it understood the principal feature of the web - linking and tracking.
So Flash was a crappy, proprietary web building tool that nevertheless allowed for much more interesting visual websites to be built (that didn't actually work structurally). Meanwhile, regular HTML sites were difficult to build anything visually slick, but...
... allowed things to be copied and iterated on. But then several structural mistakes such as putting design elements in a style sheet language that bore no relation to what the page looked like, rather than in a template one (you can't read css and see what a page looks like)...
...led to the disastrous situation today where web design has all of the downsides of things like Flash (actual code is buried in unnecessary complexity) and none of the upsides (it's too difficult to make visually innovative websites).
So although this point about Unreal Engine 5 is a joke, it highlights an important truth - website building is like being an artist who spends 90% of effort manufacturing pencils whereas games development has tools to make things that are light years ahead of web pages.
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