Which is a good summary, but in this specific circumstance the confusion of the developers wasn't about Razor pages, but the very concept of a "HTML" page havin

Which is a good summary, but in this specific circumstance the confusion of the developers wasn't about Razor pages, but the very concept of a "HTML" page having any interactivity of any kind without JavaScript and an API endpoint. There is a very substantial fraction of developers who have never done anything else, and are completely unaware that such thing is even possible.