I’ve viewed it as backlash for the way they were promoted heavily as the solution for web development based on claims about being faster or more reliable. One of the weird things about that period was that people would say something about performance, you could point to WebPageTest.org or RUM stats showing the opposite was true, and have people just trying to handwave around it. After a decade of those problems not going away, I think a lot of people have been realizing that there is something fundamental at work.

I’d like to think that as a field we’ve learned something about measuring claims or not picking your architecture based on what someone in a different business with different users is doing, but experience otherwise.