I'd argue that newer frameworks offer lot more (and are lot more complicated) than people imagine them to be. The other day, I was exploring Next.js and the nu

I'd argue that newer frameworks offer lot more (and are lot more complicated) than people imagine them to be. The other day, I was exploring Next.js and the number of features, possibilities were astonishing to me as someone that's pretty anti React. I do Svelte[kit] but it isn't there at all where NextJS is especially when paired with Drizzle and auth.js topped with Shadcn/Material UI/Ant Design, a skilled craftsman can crank out apps as fast as it would be for a Rails developer if not any faster. Unfortunately, the cognitive load that comes in JS ecosystem is mainly at three levels: - Understanding the packaging (npm, node_modues, CJS/MJS) - Understanding the bundlers (webpack/vite/Rollup) - Understanding the transpilers (Typescript, Babel, Less and Tailwind lately) EDIT: Typos