Nice gatekeeping dude. I disagree - a lot of cases can be done with just html and css. Choosing the right tool for the job can by no means mean that you're any less of an engineer.

Very well said.

Are we really going to go down this path? Feel like this is such an outdated view that doesn't add any value.

Yep. In addition to being toxic and wrong and pointless, it also reveals that OP isn’t actually very good at the non-JS parts of front-end engineering. It’s easy to assume that something is basic when you only have a basic understanding of it.

It's also the same kind of gatekeeping that they said about javascript when it was first introduced... the gp doesn't even know their history.