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by jiggawatts 698 days ago
Which is a good summary, but in this specific circumstance the confusion of the developers wasn't about Razor pages, but the very concept of a "HTML" page having any interactivity of any kind without JavaScript and an API endpoint.

There is a very substantial fraction of developers who have never done anything else, and are completely unaware that such thing is even possible.