I sort of know what you are saying. Being dealing with so-called "server-side rendering" v.s. "static generated" recently, and these feel old / boring. It has been 15 years and mostly the same thing reinvented.

However, it is not a negatively thing. We may be able to setup IIS / Apache with Squid two decades ago to do similar things. The bar to do it now is much lower, and the tooling to help achieve that is much better overall (there are some not-so-great: Figma is a great design tool, but it doesn't translate to code directly unlike Dreamweaver / Borland VCL / Visual Basic, but I heard Framer is doing good on that front). That is part of the reason why there are so much more participation of labor in this industry: it is more graphical and easier to do (even terminal tools, largely do the similar things, are much more graphical nowadays!).