I think it’s not about tech, but prestige. You have senior frontend engineers working with React, SPAs, microfrontends, and more fancy stuff earning as much as

I think it’s not about tech, but prestige. You have senior frontend engineers working with React, SPAs, microfrontends, and more fancy stuff earning as much as senior backend engineers nowadays. Now, imagine for a second we say “senior frontend engineers, let’s start using plain html served from the backend, perhaps using some template backend language or htmx”. Suddenly, those senior frontend engineers won’t be earning that much money anymore (can you imagine hundred of thousands of developers earning $250K “just” by writing html/htmx? I can’t). Whatever comes next in the mainstream frontend space must look more complex than React and friends. Money is at stake.