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I think this is losing some to text and experience with what was available at that time.

Attaching to the don wasn’t mandatory and was completely manageable.

If anything building a web app has become much heavier and longer to develop than it ever has.

I agree with this, we managed to sometimes create SPAs faster even though we had to duplicate template/initial page logic on the server side for each page in case of direct link/page refresh. Nowadays sometimes figuring out which prop you misused from a 3rd party component based on a 100 lines TS error takes more time than the actual coding.

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