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"Some scripting for dynamic things" will never satisfy the "everything must be an SPA" crowd, unfortunately.

CSS has warts, true, but you are not forced to use them. Modern CSS can be brief and clean.

Imagine a world where we have better technology and someone looks 20 years back at an old codebase. Everybody would have a hard time to understand anything. Everything of the old web tech would look overly complex und laughable overengineered. Nobody would probably be able to understand how a piece of CSS influences a part of a web page or how all the abstractions work in the code base and why they are there in the first place.

Modern web is a mess. I wish it wasn't, but it is.

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