I think we understand each other and are going down an argument rabbit hole here. I will just state what we agree on - OP shouldn't learn to write responsive pa

I think we understand each other and are going down an argument rabbit hole here. I will just state what we agree on - OP shouldn't learn to write responsive pages through raw DOM. My side of the argument is that he/she doesn't need to go past let value = document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML and form submission. Your argument is that they should just learn a framework or something that can render React components. My counter-argument is that it's basically learning modern front end design, and there is nothing simplistic about it. tldr: DOM bad. Simple form submission and using server for heavy lifting is alternative. Using full power of modern tools is another alternative. Definitely mutually exclusive.