One of the problems with server side rendered React is hydration. Even a 100% static website built with Gatsby will download a bunch of JS just to hydrate compo

One of the problems with server side rendered React is hydration. Even a 100% static website built with Gatsby will download a bunch of JS just to hydrate components that end up doing nothing. There have been some coarse workarounds for this such as gatsby-plugin-no-javascript for Gatsby and `unstable_runtimeJs: false` in Next. But those both operate at the entire page level. React server side components feels like it's taking those coarse solutions and making them more fine grained and less hacky. But my entire exposure to them is the video they just released, so who really knows at this point.