None of what you did requires vite or nextjs and all of the tooling that comes with all of that. And then in three years when the undermaintained bit of softwa

None of what you did requires vite or nextjs and all of the tooling that comes with all of that. And then in three years when the undermaintained bit of software needs to be updated the entire landscape has changed in the JavaScript world 4x over already and the tooling needs to be entirely redone along with the desired change. Again, nobody is saying "you don't need JavaScript". We're saying that the way you folks are going about it is Hell's Treadmill. At least if I have a languishing, old, unrebuildable bit of code on the server side, I can find some exploit to make it run my code changes without modifying any of the original code :D