I agree with this so much. These days, the first thing developers will do when making a new app is setup babel + webpack + react + redux, then make an API, all

I agree with this so much. These days, the first thing developers will do when making a new app is setup babel + webpack + react + redux, then make an API, all for mostly CRUD applications. Most applications don't require these frontend frameworks, and it just adds needless complexity in most cases. I've suffered due to this, and so I've recently made the move back to server rendered apps. And Rails with Turbolinks + UJS might not perfect, but it gets you like 80% of the way there for 10% of the effort.