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I'm building frontend apps since 2012. I did not like hooks but ok fine. But NextJS seamed to became the default way of building React apps. I could never grasp how people in twitter and everywhere seemed to be fine with all this complexity it brought. All of this for reducing some milliseconds in load times? How can this be the default? With create-react-app you could just compile your app and host it at S3 with CDN for pennies. With NextJS you can do static site but you have to be aware of several gotchas. It seems like made up problem and solution to make return for the VC money, what am I missing?