Developers confuse technical stack (the how) with the why (what business value is my solution delivering). There are just more choices today. You don't query f

Developers confuse technical stack (the how) with the why (what business value is my solution delivering). There are just more choices today. You don't query for the latest stack and work back words. Are you building a dog house or a skyscraper? If its a dog house use vanilla js or whatever works. If your building a skyscraper then use a react stack or something that has wide developer support since now your working on a large team on a large web application and the requirements have changed. Server side rendering for example is to solve the issue of first load but is that actually something the business must have? It also adds CPU processing to your back end and more complexity. Is the trade off worth it for your business? The reason the business pays us money is so we learn the trade offs and make the correct technical decisions, not that we blindly grab the new hot. Most hacker news links I see like this is a developer confusing their world (small shop, internal IT dev, large shop, enterprise development, contract work for medium size business, FANG company etc) with the whole world and think there is one solution that applies to all worlds.