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>And don't forget about web browsers that eat all resources just because they can.
I know that. That's why I stopped using Chrome. Way to much ram usage

> It is hard to find anything commercial in web frontend without react/vue/nuxt/next/whatever, even if you want to avoid it.

You sadly don't have much of a choice since most companies tend to use the same tech that's currently popular

>especially considering that typical js coder rarely can write complex code at all

Here's an article on that thing you touched upon made almost 2 decades ago

https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

It's a little disheartening to think that practically nothing has changed. Absolutely nothing has changed.