You don't have to use 'Modern Frameworks' (aka an ahistorical mish-mash of Javascript frameworks) to do web development at all. I'm really puzzled as to why people refer to this as modern web development.

If you're looking for a sane tech stack there are plenty of languages to use which are not javascript and plenty of previous frameworks to look at.

Very little javascript is needed for a useful and fluid front-end experience and the back end can be whatever you like.