We can, management just insists on hiring JS kids to do it a thousands times more complicated. "Just use a sane PHP framework" will get you fired now. Alas. Th

We can, management just insists on hiring JS kids to do it a thousands times more complicated. "Just use a sane PHP framework" will get you fired now. Alas. The problem is thinking that all of these things are different domains when they really aren't. The web browser is just a program; its job is to fetch resources and render HTML. If you know how HTTP and HTML/CSS work, you can absolutely make great web applications. But this requires knowledge and expertise, and also maybe not shoehorning an entire application framework into what was designed to be a collection of hyperlinked documents. I suspect this has more to do with money than anything else... the web is dead, long live the web.