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Web development does seem out of control. The simplest pages require sooo much code. I miss the HTML/CSS days.

There is literally nothing stopping you from building websites like it was the year 2000

Auth in 2000 was "here, have a Cookie". Auth in 2024 is ... not that anymore.

Cookies still work though?

I believe most of the modern world will thank you if you do.