Agree in principle, but any technique is frigthening at first.

Clearly for the authors this is a usual workflow - they're productive with it, and they only had to pay the complexity cost once (when figuring out things).

Once you get an integrated frontend-backend system and codebase, you start to get unique benefits:

- Server-rendered data, for avoiding superfluous ajax requests

- Simpler deployments (fewer moving pieces)

- Single codebase, less knowledge segregation

and so on.