> I've been doing web dev for 30 yrs

That would be impressive, since Mosaic is only 29 years old at this point :)

I don't thinking people are reinventing server side rendering. Rediscovering it, perhaps. It has always been here, along with plain old HTML and PHP. The modern toolbox of JS-based toolboxes exists for a reason: all the things that you can't do (or can only do very clunkily) with server-side implementations. That hasn't changed.

What people wanted from a web page in 1994 is so utterly different than what many web pages are expected to do now. If it's a spiral, it's one that is spiralling out, not in, as the scope expands significantly.

> No offense, but you have probably not been in software development for 25+ years.

You're wrong about this.

You and I see things differently.

You see things as never being new and "plain old X and Y again".

I try to see things with fresh eyes, yet still with the benefit of my 25+ years in the industry. I try not to make assumptions that limit my thinking about something. Some might call it a beginner's mindset, and it has served me well.

If you think this is the same as "old html and php again" then you haven't understood the article.