I like that people are trying to show you examples of fetch vs xhr as though you haven't seen them. "If you just look at them, you'll clearly transform yourself

I like that people are trying to show you examples of fetch vs xhr as though you haven't seen them. "If you just look at them, you'll clearly transform yourself to have the same aesthetic preferences I do!" They're all missing the point, frankly. The point is, we're stuck in this vicious cycle where we all get selective amnesia and forget why someone was invented, and we decide that it's old/ugly/unergonomic/ungraceful/unclean/unsimple/etc./etc. and invent something new. Woe to them that love the fetch API, and fall into a time warp to 2005 when everyone was singing the praises of "AJAX". You'd be bowled over by the sheer culture shock. (Likewise, I can't wait for 2035, when we'll have invented some emoji-based way to represent fetches, and those still using fetch() or axios() will be seen as hipsters/clueless).