It came with age and time for me. I don’t care for bells and whistles nearly as much as I used to. And I would rather pay more for something that does its thing really well and reliably.

I’ve learned that I don’t get as much real world value from the extras and they cost me more up front and are an under appreciated burden for the duration I own it.

As it relates to this article, the last 3 web applications I’ve built have used PHP, are not SPAs and store data in flat json files (I.e https://fiers.co - I don’t think you’d be able to tell). There’s some stuff that are hard to do and those things don’t get done because I don’t want the complexity.