I just want to thank you and also chime in. I'm not even 40 years old and all this frontend crap from the last decade or so makes me feel old. I started learning this webdev stuff from an HTML book in the nineties. A time when 'frontend' meant HTML and CSS, and maybe some plain JS.

I'm not here to piss on JS frameworks, it's good that devs push the limits of what's possible, I guess. But there's something to say for simplicity and stuff that's so matured that you can really rely on it. Making sound decisions for your product, your stack and your architecture is a skill.