> Every alternative to the big frameworks (looking at you htmlx) feel like minor syntaxic sugar for jQuery and friends which feels like a massive step backwards and completely the wrong choice for building a web app.

Building an entire web app out of Javascript has been an incredibly dumb idea, and some ecosystems are trying to return us to the roots: most of the heavy lifting is done server-side, and JS is a sprinkle of interactivity on top, like the golden age of jQuery.

Before you bite my head off telling me about apps that necessarily have to be SPAs, how many apps are people using React for when a modern server-side framework would do (i.e. Phoenix Live View)?