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This is a direct descendent of ASP.NET MVC which is like 14 years old.

Blazor adds live updating of components via websocket using the Blazor Server opiton, or hosts the whole MVC web app in the browser if you are doing Blazor WASM.

To me it feels like a direct continuation of the last decade of ASP.NET development.

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I've been using ASP.NET MVC since the preview and wouldn't touch this. It actually feels more like the old ASPX web forms where the components were inscrutable black boxes. Ultimately, I think it's actually better to have separation between UI, client-side state persistence and server-side frameworks.

It does feel like web forms, complete with the life cycle methods (component instead of page/control in this case). I built an internal application for a client and it felt like a fusion of react and web forms.

Just that they are no longer black boxes (except you build them). And the model is basically the same as for all of the other SPA frameworks).

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