I think there's a lot of social pressure from rockstar web developers to build and use JS libraries and frameworks. Let's face it, classic front-end web develo

I think there's a lot of social pressure from rockstar web developers to build and use JS libraries and frameworks. Let's face it, classic front-end web development works fine and is well understood. Doesn't get you into conferences or help you sell courses. So we get the web of today, piles of Javascript and unnecessary complexity all wrapped together with ads and tracking. And excuses about how today's customers expect an app-like experience.