PHP was not great in the early days, same goes for Javascript, but they made web we use today, I'm not going to use today's standard on yesterday's realities. B

PHP was not great in the early days, same goes for Javascript, but they made web we use today, I'm not going to use today's standard on yesterday's realities. Both have moved on and are much better off now. Comparing to PHP, modern frontend is the true mess still though, there was never a simple to use SPA frontend in existence, they're all complicated, over-engineered and changing too fast to me, and now they are even adding what PHP was good at(SSR), frontend is the problem and getting even worse to me. The backend, be it PHP-laravel, Ruby-rails or python-django, even node-express are an already solved problem, the frontend framework folks adding SSR into frontend frameworks are simply insane to me. NOTE I'm not against SSR, what I dislike is that they add SSR directly into an already over-complicated SPA framework, which will kill itself under its own weight soon.