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by yieldcrv 348 days ago
> Hard to see the real reason for Vercel to do this.

Next supremacy is very obvious

Kills all those Linkedin threads about moving away from Next. Kills the indecision for what employment-seeking devs need to optimize for. Makes those job descriptions less all over the place and even more Next focused

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That doesn't make any sense at all. Vercel wins either way if you choose Next, Nuxt, or Svelte. Seems obvious - why would they care if you use Next vs. Nuxt now?
> Vercel wins either way if you choose Next, Nuxt, or Svelte. Seems obvious - why would they care if you use Next vs. Nuxt now?

Because maintaining three projects is more expensive than maintaining one. It's within their best interests to quietly extinguish any alternatives in favor of the one that most closely matches their vision.