> One group of web devs is great at picking the right tool for the job. Simple web applications get simple solutions. The complex SPA solutions only get brought

> One group of web devs is great at picking the right tool for the job. Simple web applications get simple solutions. The complex SPA solutions only get brought out for applications that require it. I like to see myself in this group. The problem is, however: requirements creep. Especially when consulting. The customer doesn’t know the full extent of their needs, and they always want more and more. Which in the end often invalidates the initial decision of «going simple and lean». Then you’ll have trouble explaining why incremental changes start to take so much time. So I think there is some merit to the approach of getting really good at a particular powerful and generalizable set of tools (even if they have flaws, such as not being lean, a bit complex, and shipping more JS to the client). I think that’s why React and NextJS’ is so enormously popular, even though they’re overkill for most sites and webapps.