I understand your frustration. I feel the same way. I think the web development landscape has become unnecessarily complex. I sometimes miss how simple it used

I understand your frustration. I feel the same way. I think the web development landscape has become unnecessarily complex. I sometimes miss how simple it used to be to just throw some PHP files together and have a working website up and running. Granted, those “simple” websites came with their own set of issues (especially security-wise), but I still miss that simplicity. Over the past 10-ish years alone, I’ve watched web development go through so many phases, it’s not even funny. Anyone remember gulp.js? Well, I remember a time when every conference talk mentioned it and you were weird if you didn’t use it. Backbone.js anyone? In my experience, I’ve found that most folks can’t even tell you WHY they use React or insert JavaScript framework here. Not too long ago, I was stepping through some “hello world” code for a trendy framework and the amount of code that was touched just to write “hello world” in the browser felt absolutely ridiculous to me. Let me stop myself before I go on a prolonged rant . . . Anyway, all that said, this is why I’m a fan of SvelteKit (Svelte) and Remix (React). I think they provide a decent balance of modern features while building on native web features/protocols properly.