That’s correct about Layouts, and I agree, if you want something with all the quality of life tooling ready to go, Next seems to be the way to go. It isn’t too

That’s correct about Layouts, and I agree, if you want something with all the quality of life tooling ready to go, Next seems to be the way to go. It isn’t too hard to get the same/similar tooling outside of the vercel ecosystem, but it does take know how and a bit of extra time. It isn’t obviously worth it unless vercel isn’t meeting your needs in my opinion/experience. I mostly play around with other frameworks in order to learn, but for any client where a frontend framework made sense I’d almost certainly choose Next. Edit: people also get bent out of shape about perfect hydration and shaving milliseconds here and there, but like you mention, Next offers such a comprehensive solution in a situation where routing and hydration are only a part of the big picture. Next gets you really far without any effort up front, which is crazy. I really like it!