Comment by gonational

I sometimes think that the direction web development took is like some kind of bad dream that we will wake up from. It's unbelievable to me. The problems we faced before SPAs were things like "great we've got two forms on the same page and this widget on the top right needs to update when a message comes in from the back end… How will we ever solve this", and before anybody could come up with any good patterns google came on the scene with Angular, and ruined the entire direction of the Internet, forever.

TBH I also think that Alpine and HTMX are just as dastardly and disgusting, maybe even worse. I don't know why nobody can figure out a good way to just put in reactive components where you need them. All of the frameworks support that, Svelte seems to be the one that is the least against that, but I still don't see anybody using it that way. Front end developers, which tend to have the least business logic experience, somehow captured the entire SDLC. This is why literally all software is just completely riddled with insufferable bugs, beyond anything anyone in the 90s could have imagined.