I think this is mostly your own personal experience and likely a bit rose tinted. It is perfectly possible to deploy a webapp in React that will last for 10 ye

I think this is mostly your own personal experience and likely a bit rose tinted. It is perfectly possible to deploy a webapp in React that will last for 10 years more or less how a website from 10 years ago could still function today. Also jQuery's very existence was due to how much of a disaster writing webapps was in the past with the host of compatibility issues between not only browsers but just within versions of the same browser. Also there's no issue scaling WordPress? WordPress is notoriously slow and hard to scale. It's a great option for getting a basic website up and running quickly but by God is it a slow and bloated mess and while you can performance tune it, it's not at all a simple or straight forward process and it certainly wasn't easier 10 years ago. I've been a web developer since 1998 and it's definitely much easier to deploy, maintain and scale websites today than it ever was not to mention that websites today play a much larger role with the rise of mobile computing than they did back then. To the extent that it was easier to do anything in the past, it was because the concerns of the past were much smaller than they are today. Security was a much lesser concern 10-15 years ago than now. Writing webapps that work across multiple devices also was a much lower priority. Compatibility was a complete mess, many sites were developed to just work on a specific version of Internet Explorer. The idea that 10 years ago there were minimal problems deploying websites or maintaining them is likely you remembering the good parts and forgetting the bad or that your websites didn't need much scale or didn't address many of the modern concerns that exist today. Things were pretty bad back then to be frank and it's much easier today than it ever was.