I think you bring up a great point! But while true, nothing really prevents one from adding their own router that handles for them that's decoupled from Next.JS and it would largely function as a traditional SPA (in that the export/'SSG' only builds one page, a la a true SPA).
And that IMO is kind of where the problem is - what level of abstraction should be added? Lots of beginners had problems because they were bombarded with the many confusing things to install to make something, and more often than not routing was one of them. It's just that Next.JS' is opinionated, but I'd argue so is everything else.
And that IMO is kind of where the problem is - what level of abstraction should be added? Lots of beginners had problems because they were bombarded with the many confusing things to install to make something, and more often than not routing was one of them. It's just that Next.JS' is opinionated, but I'd argue so is everything else.