Most of it seems about resolving the tension between javascript, peoples opinions, the DOM, and the role of the server. Also there's the whole fractal of tool

Most of it seems about resolving the tension between javascript, peoples opinions, the DOM, and the role of the server. Also there's the whole fractal of tool chains, transpilers, frameworks, libraries and design patterns that exploded out of people manipulating DOM strings to do something to a webform and feeling yucky about it.