When you mention that you're used to rendering HTML on the server side and don't use React on the frontend to do things, modern web people just look at you like

When you mention that you're used to rendering HTML on the server side and don't use React on the frontend to do things, modern web people just look at you like you committed a crime or something (VanillaJS! the horror! Those thirty lines of Javascript would be unmaintainable without a deployment tool!!!!). It's really hard to fight the trend especially in larger orgs.