The irony for me is that I often see very small applications that use a long list of technologies... and end up taking much longer to build (and load on a clien

The irony for me is that I often see very small applications that use a long list of technologies... and end up taking much longer to build (and load on a client browser) than a server-side rendered application would have. To be sure, if you can accurately roadmap an application such that you can see how it's going to grow and expand across teams, then you can see where it makes sense to use frameworks to build areas, navigation, components, etc. and then be able to distribute work across teams. But often very small applications with very small teams are built in a way that is unnecessarily complex, and the expected (later) payoff never arrives.