React makes us believe everything must have 1-2s response to clicks and the maximum table size is 10 rows.
When I come back to web 1.0 apps, I’m often surprised that it does a round-trip to the server in less than 200ms, and reloads the page seamlessly, including a full 5ms SQL query for 5k rows and returned them in the page (=a full 1MB of data, with basically no JS).
There’s shit tons of money to be made for both startups and developers if they convince us that problems solved decades ago aren’t actually solved so they can sell you their solution instead (which in most cases will have recurring costs and/or further maintenance).
