Absolutely. The trends and gimmicks have caused this “walled garden” effect. It’s made both “practical frontend engineers” and “practical frontend architecture

Absolutely. The trends and gimmicks have caused this “walled garden” effect. It’s made both “practical frontend engineers” and “practical frontend architecture” a rarity. If I could write this post again, I’d talk more about how most use-cases simply don’t need a “modern tech stack”. React is basically a glorified templating engine that attempts to enable reactive mechanisms on the client. Need “reactive”? Consider Svelte as well. Don’t need it? Consider moving the render to the build and use a lighter templating engine.