[iamcasen]

You've outlined it so well! "you're stuck between... and you're just doing your best to make it all work."

Couple that with the fact that the whole front-end world has gone completely bonkers, reinventing the wheel so many times in the last 10 years I'm surprised my head hasn't separated from my body.

It's funny that things have come full-circle these days, going back to server-rendered views. My career literally witnessed the entire move from HTML -> SPA -> HTML again. It only took roughly 16 years.

[mmcnl]

You don't see the value add?

[phero_cnstrcts]

People have even gone all the way back and started writing inline styles again. (Tailwind)