The best applications I delivered over the last couple of years were in Symfony 2 to 5. MVC with some jQuery sprinkled on top and it did the job. Want API because the company suddenly wants an app?

No worries, add the RESTbundle and now your controllers are returning JSON or XML rather than Twig rendered html.

Around 2014-2015 I was worried that I missed the Angular or Meteor or Knockout or Ember or something..JS boat but then quickly realised my customers didn't care about JS frameworks and wanted business flows automated and solved.

Now I see NextJS or something solving problems Symfony solved 10 years ago and I just chuckle.