One point I would like to make on this is when most people say Session is a bad design or an anti-pattern they are generally referring to the server side portio

One point I would like to make on this is when most people say Session is a bad design or an anti-pattern they are generally referring to the server side portion of the design. Basically the server side hash map that serves to approximate the state of the client. There are few that would argue that there is no merit in cookies or storing a proxy in a cookie to identify a user. It is all the junk that gets stored on the server to emulate the state of the client that creates so many issues in web development.