I kind of agree, but once you need any JavaScript, you basically need it to pull in the entire modern JS tool chain, so adding server side rendering doesn’t rep

I kind of agree, but once you need any JavaScript, you basically need it to pull in the entire modern JS tool chain, so adding server side rendering doesn’t replace complexity, it adds to it. Having a system that would allow you to build server side rendered HTML that could seamlessly integrate client JavaScript seems like it would be a huge advantage. Not sure if there is anything like that though.