I learnt to program for the Web in the late 90s. I used perl and later php. I stopped in the early 00s because I found supporting IE6 was soul destroying. Much

I learnt to program for the Web in the late 90s. I used perl and later php. I stopped in the early 00s because I found supporting IE6 was soul destroying. Much more recently I got into it again and saw things like Rails and Django and was amazed. It was like stepping in a time machine and seeing what I always thought web development should have been. But the whole node, react etc. model is nothing like that. It's a regression as far as I can tell. It just makes everything more complicated for little benefit.