its too big of a field to say. lots of things are easier and lots are harder. PHP being phased out makes things much easier. languages are cleaner now (as in cleaner than php). hardware is worse (laggy monitors, keyboards, GUIs, internet connections flying all over the place and spamming popups in your face), but CPUs are faster. newer build systems are somewhat cleaner, but theres tons of system complexity as usual, probably worse than before. while a lot of RCE problems are being fixed, security is harder now with worse solutions on offer (for example, identity being solved by ad hoc junk like recaptcha, SMS, photo id, video, web based authentication providers).