> My sense is: we’re beginning to near another leap My sense is that there won't be another leap in the conventional sense of a new dominant frontend paradigm

> My sense is: we’re beginning to near another leap My sense is that there won't be another leap in the conventional sense of a new dominant frontend paradigm that will be so "optimal" that it can be all things to all people. jquery was at some point used like for 98% of websites. This historical precedent created the false expectation that the web is a single something. But this is no longer true true. The arrangement of browser/clients - servers is so flexible that very many patterns are desirable and viable even though not yet fully crystallized. More likely the next "web" will bifurcate (or maybe trifurcate). Its not yet obvious what the different web "subtypes" will look like. There is now a visible revisiting of paths not followed during the breathless SPA years (e.g. minimalistic reactive frontends (htmx, alpine.js) in combination with popular backends (phoenix, laravel, django). There are also new horizons with wasm (e.g. running the entire python data science stack in the browser). And worth remembering that knowledge management challenges that were once thought resolvable through the "semantic web" are basically still unsolved. At some point an LLM will scaffold an SPA/CRUD/sort-of-REST thingy in its entirety and we will need to move on to some truly unsolved problems. Thus, a lot of this heated debate and people talking past each other is, imho, just a waste of time and it won't be relevant in the big scheme of things.