I always have cognitive dissonance about this kind of stuff. I read this article and “In defense of the modern web” and I feel like I agree with both of them.

I think new things don’t necessarily make older things obsolete. We have printers, for example, but it’s not like pens, pencils, and even chalk aren’t useful.

Whenever I start a new project (admittedly, these are personal projects so not the same kind of scale—but in my job where the where the scale is bigger I’ve noticed a similar sentiment), I like to think about everything I have available to me. I could make a Vue SPA, a generated static site with 11ty, a backend CRUD app with PHP (I like Fat-Free Framework), WordPress (haters gonna hate), a site with no JavaScript, a site with only vanilla JavaScript, or anything in between.

I at once feel like a wide-eyed optimist ready to plow into the future and a curmudgeonly get-off-my-lawn skeptic who’s been burned too many times.

It's a good thing I consider building websites/apps good fun or else I would be really stressed out. :-)