I appreciate your observations, but don't agree with your conclusion: Javascript provides a decent API for interacting with the DOM dynamically. I understand y

I appreciate your observations, but don't agree with your conclusion: Javascript provides a decent API for interacting with the DOM dynamically. I understand you're frustrated with culture, community, and tooling, but you can still use Javascript without these to make web pages interactive in a way you can't do pure server-side. The MDN web docs are a great place to start.