HTML wasn’t designed to be dynamic but it certainly evolved to be, and personally I don’t think it’s that bad per se, but modern frameworks such as Angular and

HTML wasn’t designed to be dynamic but it certainly evolved to be, and personally I don’t think it’s that bad per se, but modern frameworks such as Angular and React have added so many unnecessary layers of complexity, that most developers have to reason about and work with several layers of abstraction just to make simple things work. There isn’t a real alternative because all the popular modern browsers only fundamentally understand HTML, and have been evolving and refining this over the past three decades or so. What would be nice is to have a new markup that is natively rendered and handled by the browser and that behaves similar to the document/page model everyone is used to but with built-in persistence, session handling, and dynamic rendering with a very simple and intuitive API. Obviously we have all of these already in one form or another but it’s all just hacked-together HTML/JS/CSS under the hood. Edit: minor corrections because mobile devices suck