Given that I started writing (and still write) webpages with nothing more than a browser and a text editor, I think the "barrier to entry" has always been quite low. It's only if you want to make a full "web app" using JS and all the latest frameworks/libraries/etc. that the complexity becomes overwhelming, and I wouldn't consider that "entry level" anymore; anyone who is doing that sort of stuff should already be well-versed in writing basic static pages.

(And given how unfriendly to deep linking, accessibility, archiving, and sharing these increasingly popular JS-only single-page web apps are, it would be better if more people, including the beginners, stayed with simply styled, accessible and readable, static pages.)