The Next.js team keeps hiding the usefulness of React Server Component for the ease of development and Vercel deployment. It's a gatekeeper at its best.

Why not exposing an API for RSC so that i can imperatively fetch a RSC page with normal fetch call ? Why hiding such a killer feature so that you don't need HTMX anymore.

Also, why conventionally forcing the "RSC page" can't access the Request object in lue of caching. Instead of flexibility of a framework, you force things which users don't prioritize.

Ah, one last point, file system routing without anyway to opt-out is a red flag of the architecture as well.