[akritrime]

I am more surprised at how the general notion has shifted towards the idea that Next.js is the default starting option now. It just feels like such a drastic change to me, compared to even 2 or 3 years back (last when I paid enough attention to frontend stuff).

[chrisweekly]

Yeah, NextJS is very opinionated and IME (doing webdev since 1998), using Vite (and optionally React-router / Remix, for SSR etc) makes MUCH more sense.