No, that train has left the station. We can’t agree to go back to riding horses to work instead of cars or churning our own butter either. I have the same reac

No, that train has left the station. We can’t agree to go back to riding horses to work instead of cars or churning our own butter either. I have the same reaction you describe — why does a site site use so much Javascript to display a page that could be plain HTML? But try pushing that idea to customers and bosses and their marketing teams and advertisers. Even sadder is I talk to more and more people calling themselves front-end developers who can’t write plain HTML and CSS and have no clue how HTTP works. For them web front-end means React (or whatever the flavor is this month).