React community splitting into full-stack and client-only camps, suggests survey

There are too many issues with the current SSR push in Next and React 19. It doesn't make sense why they're pushing so hard for SSR now.

SSR is mainly good for SEO, and SEO is dying. People find their answers elsewhere these days. Look at the recent developer surveys, most use React for dashboards and SASS apps, not landing pages.

Next was already perfect before. You had enough SSR to build a fast landing page, and for the rest, 99% of your work, you just followed straightforward React conventions.

Now they're shoehorning SSR into everything. It doesn't make any sense. They should have done this 10 years ago when people cared about SEO. Now it's the worst possible timing.

And the "I'm out" camp which I'm part of now