[grey-area]

You don't have to use 'Modern Frameworks' (aka an ahistorical mish-mash of Javascript frameworks) to do web development at all. I'm really puzzled as to why people refer to this as modern web development.

If you're looking for a sane tech stack there are plenty of languages to use which are not javascript and plenty of previous frameworks to look at.

Very little javascript is needed for a useful and fluid front-end experience and the back end can be whatever you like.

[zelphirkalt]

Well, I wish more developers had your insight and could make it heard at their jobs. Then the web would be in a better state than it is today.

[lovethevoid]

Vast majority of the web's downfalls stem from advertising and tracking. Unless you're proposing a way to remove advertising, then the problems will remain no matter what tech the developers opted for.

[mdhb]

You are conflating two entirely different issues. Both are true but neither at the expense of the other

[lovethevoid]

They aren't entirely different issues at all and are quite tightly interwoven. It doesn't matter how many ms you shave off by using/not using react when your page loads a full screen video ad and has 50MB of trackers to aid in its quest to access personal info.

[mdhb]

They are very literally different issues.

[jay_kyburz]

One is a tech problem, the other is a business problem.

There are no ads on my websites.

[xnx]

Absolutely true. All technologies that previously existed (e.g. PHP3 + MySQL) still exist. Unfortunately, if you're looking to make use of other people's libraries, it is very difficult to find them for "obsolete" stacks.

[grey-area]

I disagree, there are plenty of libraries out there for most languages, and people should be more cautious if anything about importing code.