Are frontend frameworks even relevant ? Granted, I'm no frontend engineer, but I have toy projects where I only have "vanilla" JS written and read by agents. Works a breeze, no dependency hell. It won't work everywhere but I'm pretty sure a fraction of existing apps don't need frameworks anymore.

Why wouldnt frontend frameworks be relevant?

If it's just a toy, sure. But even frontier models reach a tipping point of complexity fairly early where they start introducing bugs quicker than they fix them.

A (good) framework abstracts away the complexity so you hit that tipping point much later in terms of codebase size, and reduces your token spend to boot.

I get that, seeing what a model can do with a Django codebase. Out of the major frontend frameworks, Svelte(kit) is actually the only one I would consider now as it seems to produce smaller packages.

True one year ago, not now