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I partially agree with you, because Vercel put a ton of effort on this one. And the repo (and features list) is massive.

On the other hand, I do believe they drifted too much and stopped listening. As someone else said it - most of the fancy features are used by 1% of the projects, and everything else is buried in hacks and workarounds.

I also agree the tone (and especially the AI brag) is a bit too much. And at the same time it's honest - it doesn't need to be THAT hard and complex. Nor slow :)

That's why I've written an open letter to fix Next.js, to whomever wants to do it (Vercel, Cloudflare or anyone else). Because we have needs, and we cannot play this game anymore...

https://please-fix-next.com/ if you're interested