A great post about "getting off the treadmill" of using the latest front-end development framework. It echoes a lot of my own beliefs & experiences of how front end development and "mainstream tech" has rubbed me the wrong way since going all in with the Javascript-bro's.
One of the most useful ways of gauging a developer|engineer| designer's seniority is on their strongly held opinions on shiny new versions or toys. I guess it's one of those advantages and Differences of professionally "growing up" in a Perl shop while West Coast American High Tech was moving fast and breaking things.
Web technologies have evolved over the past decade, where Marco Rogers—the author—makes a great point:
Companies that want to reduce the cost of their frontend tech becoming obsoleted so often should be looking to get back to fundamentals. Your teams should be working closer to the web platform with a lot less complex abstractions. We need to relearn what the web is capable of and go back to that.
There's a reason professionals across any industry—art, sport, food, hospitality—always focus on strong execution of foundational aspects of their practices. Getting The Basics right are critical to success. There is no foundation for developing internet software than core web technologies...where I concur with him again:
I think it is an extremely capable and unique platform for delivering software. And it has only gotten better over time while retaining an incredible level of backwards compatibility. The underlying tools we have are dope now. But our current framework layer is working against the grain instead of embracing the platform.