[dzonga]

react server components is something that should've never existed anyway.

are people shipping faster due to them ? or it's all complexity, security vulnerabilities like this. you're not facebook. render html the classic way if you need server rendered html. if you really do need an SPA - which is 5% of the apps out there - then yeah use client side react, vue, svelte etc - none of those RPC server actions etc

[CodingJeebus]

Agreed. Unfortunately, there's an entire content/bootcamp ecosystem pushing this stuff that came of age largely during the tech boom, as well as a bunch of early and mid-career devs and companies that are deeply tied to it. With major VC funding backing projects like Bun, Vercel, etc., I don't think this deeply flawed approach to development is going anywhere because the utopian JS fantasy of "it just works and runs everywhere flawlessly" is the ultimate myth of building for the web.