This was back in the pure desktop era of the Web which had ginormous amount of stuff put on one screen. Server side Web component frameworks needed to handle f

This was back in the pure desktop era of the Web which had ginormous amount of stuff put on one screen. Server side Web component frameworks needed to handle far more complexity on terrible networks with lesser compute power. One of the good things that mobile platforms did is establish a designer culture of UI simplification. JSF as someone pointed out was a framework birthed in the wrong era.