For instance, the projects I worked on were professional software. People don't care so much about SSR and first page rendering speed. We also didn't need the l

For instance, the projects I worked on were professional software. People don't care so much about SSR and first page rendering speed. We also didn't need the latest shiny browser APIs, or to tweak CSS to perfection, and we reasonably could say that this wasn't going to be the case in the future. In that context where many devs were backend devs or self-taught, so using JS wasn't that important, since we were going to train anyway. Actually, training to Elm felt much saner than training to JS. However, the tech remained niche for all the reasons I quoted in my first message.