[jaredgorski]

Absolutely.

The trends and gimmicks have caused this “walled garden” effect. It’s made both “practical frontend engineers” and “practical frontend architecture” a rarity. If I could write this post again, I’d talk more about how most use-cases simply don’t need a “modern tech stack”.

React is basically a glorified templating engine that attempts to enable reactive mechanisms on the client. Need “reactive”? Consider Svelte as well. Don’t need it? Consider moving the render to the build and use a lighter templating engine.