> What these do is let you do things like turn a collection of objects into a the HTML for a table and send that over the wire. The client then just has time to display the table and not assemble it from e.g. JSON.
Typo aside, I did try to capture the essential difference of a server-side templating engine vs. how many people build using "modern" web stacks.
But I have worked with enough engineers schooled since React became popular to know that the "modern" Web stack basically is SPAs everywhere.
Incidentally, this same evolution has made SQL something of a dark art among programmers. It's good that the field is big and diverse and specialized! But also, there are tons of professional full-stack Web programmers who are functionally illiterate in SQL due to primarily using NoSQLs or ORMs.