[sibidharan]

It's been like this all along! We can write complex applications with HTML/CSS/Vanilla JS... But then.. React happened! UI rendering JS is bad - thats just my opinion. If server can render HTML and serve, whats better than that? Its ok for apps where browser is the source of truth like Figma, Google Sheets.. But using React for everything ... that is overkill. Most apps has server as the source of truth, data lives in server, and it can generate HTML right there.. No need for JSON+Hydrate, which is unnecessary- because server can generate HTML, the browser can understand HTML... Virtual DOM makes React Fast, not our apps fast..

AI didn't eliminate the need for frameworks.. It just picks the right one for the Job.. when plain HTML is ok, it chooses plain HTML.