[smt88]

You seem to be refuting a straw-man argument here. Why would a hobby site provide a counter example for people talking about work they do for their employers?

No rational person would advocate using Svelte or React for a static, one-off, informational site to be maintained by a single person.

In fact, you didn't even need jQuery at all. Vanilla JS works across browsers in a way that it didn't when you learned web coding 10 years ago.

Where frameworks become useful is for large projects that many people work on over a long period of time. Turnover is an issue for non-standardized code, as is poorly organized code.

And none of that even touches on security, which absolutely requires libraries, packages, and many of the other benefits of reusing the ecosystem that you seem to eschew.

[snapetom]

> No rational person would advocate using Svelte or React for a static, one-off, informational site to be maintained by a single person.

This is where we disagree, and I think that's the problem. In my use case, I just wanted an HTML template file with at most a few CSS files. There's a dearth of those frameworks/templates compared to bigger packages.