But there are other degrees of ExtJS nostalgia:
- Being allowed to do everything in a desktop-like manner, and not having to bother too much with either mobile or more stylized web applications, even in enterprise contexts. No technical issue, no technical solution.
- Doing that in a simple manner. Even contemporary (> v4 or even v3) ExtJS might not be "ExtJS" in this regard, as the framework part got a lot more complex. First with their own weird tooling, nowadays with the worst of both worlds.
- Not having to touch HTML and CSS. Early ExtJS allowed you to do most things with heavily nested JS literal objects. With angular/react/etc. it's all separate syntaxes, most of them with angle brackets.
We may have some by 2050 thanks to https://open-ui.org
Browsers did pour billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man-hours into a lot of bullshit though :(