> But to this day I never understood people who use js/react for pages that could have been handwritten with zero js in half a day (including a handwritten flui

> But to this day I never understood people who use js/react for pages that could have been handwritten with zero js in half a day (including a handwritten fluid CSS layout). I think people tend to improve their knowledge of some specific tool/language (JS in this case) and wanting it to apply to everything, not just what they initially learned it for and even if it might not be a great fit. If all you know (because its what the schools/bootcamps teach) is generating HTML via DOM operations in JS, you might not even know better/simpler ways of doing it. A bit like if someone just knew C and haven't really explored other languages/environments, then they might think that building a server serving HTML is a great thing to build in C, rather than using pre-built tools that serve static files or even using a safer language.