Over the last ~10-15 years the frontend has grown to be extremely complex. _overly complex_. Imagine a tire that can now play the radio. Disagreed. Are we over

Over the last ~10-15 years the frontend has grown to be extremely complex. _overly complex_. Imagine a tire that can now play the radio. Disagreed. Are we overcomplicating static blogs using fancy frameworks, CDNs, edge DBs, functions? Yes. At the same time, we literally have front-ends that are a whole application - VSCode, Slack, Discord, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Figma, ec. These apps load instantly from any browser, connects to the cloud, and they can be downloaded to work as a desktop app. These aren't just tires with wheels. They're the actual car and the server is just the gas.