I'm currently using some of the latest popular stack, for a simple Web site that could've appeared almost the same 25 years ago[*], with static HTML and a little client-side JS. (And could've been implemented faster then, and would've operated much more efficiently.)

158 NPM packages already, and the page load requests are insane.

Two reasons I'm doing this monstrosity of an implementation anyway:

1. Resume-driven-development, on a personal/indie project.

2. Using the framework's interactive SSR just to make it harder for freeloaders (AI company scrapers, copy&paste developers) to copy the information or the implementation tricks.

[*] Except for a little flexbox "responsive" flowing, corner rounding (without kludges), and some fade transitions, none of which are necessary.