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This acquisition is very much in the context of https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/roadmap/#first-quarter https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/roadmap/#first-quarter and https://github.com/Shopify/hydrogen https://github.com/Shopify/hydrogen - Shopify very much wants to move to the modern era. And to address your point, it's not gaslighting to say that React enables interactions that would be essentially impossible if restricted to server-side templating. But there's certainly some degree to which trendiness and a desire to attract developers into their ecosystem is driving this as well.