> There's no reason why you can't still dev the "old" way. Absolutely. It's just when you jump back in the webdev world and you see changes you end up learning

> There's no reason why you can't still dev the "old" way. Absolutely. It's just when you jump back in the webdev world and you see changes you end up learning them to keep yourself relevant. As the years have passed, since starting with knockoutjs (for me) the back of my mind was slowly accepting the "old ways" are the best way to simplify and solve the actual problem. I was slowly moving back to using jQuery.. and, in the last year, have been moving over to htmx.