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Next.js is easy peasy and lovely and wonderful until you need to mix in validations + translations + authentication + authorisation + calling upstream APIs with user's credentials + ...

That's when you realise using what would be a perfect framework for building landing pages might not be the best one to build a full web application.

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Isn't that the part where you as a developer step in? Most of these things are solved problems with mature libraries to integrate. I much rather mix and match then fight some all-in-one super framework that doesn't do quite what you need.

I think my job is to ship useful, secure and robust features to my company's customers. Dealing with technology is a consequence of that, not the end goal itself, which seems to be what's most wrong about this industry.

Certainly tying together libraries (or writing your own framework) is a valid approach, it's just a lot more expensive to reach the same quality level. That's why usually you end up with half assed solutions or never ending projects.

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