In many cases this is true (typical CRUD apps), the tools (react etc) are too way too heavyweight for the job. It may even be some large % the case that it is a

In many cases this is true (typical CRUD apps), the tools (react etc) are too way too heavyweight for the job. It may even be some large % the case that it is a self-induced hell. However, I think frontend is often quite underrated in its essential complexity. I don't share the opinion that state management is a fashion, it's often tightly intertwined with the UX requirements, which can be varied and have all kinds of difficult essential complexity of their own (often complexity that is under-specified, and up to the programmer to discover). The lack of experience of many frontend devs, combined with the limitations of dynamically typed Javascript, is a recipe for a lot of very gnarly code. Maybe it would be fair to say that this is self-inflicted, but I am sympathetic. It's quite a difficult problem. When I think of 'total own-goal', completely pointless self-inflicted hell, I think of Python package management.