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The industry as a whole stopped caring about users. They cared about their resume or CV. Resume Driven development.

They have also either completely forgotten or for newer devs never learned anything about HTML / non JS front end development. Hence "but that’s a lot more work for us." Somewhere along the line HTML and CSS became Assembly. They somehow became dark magic.

For real users, no one cares about the tech being used. And most of the so called advantage provided by JS front end sites are at best marginal and realistically speaking imaginary unless you are Google Earth or Online photoshop / spreadsheets.