In that case it was a simple .Net core MVC stack, Vs an angular/Web API stack.
For some inscrutable reason you can no longer do a simple 3 page form with a results page without making a SPA these days without getting someone claiming you're doing it wrong, it's nuts.
Worse still, the angular app has all sorts of weird bugs. Auto-complete somehow screws with the validation of inputs, back button doesn't work properly as you lose all your data, URLs dont work, etc., etc., etc. There's also all sorts of craziness like the whole admin frontend is bundled with the client-facing part as the front-end developer didn't know how to split them up.
Utterly preposterous.
The problem is often that very skilled Devs give advice about incredibly specific stacks that only someone of their abnormally high-skill level can maintain.
Throw in a few juniors or a few mediocre developers and the whole project turns into a complete and utter mess.
And don't get me started on your stack that's mainly inappropriate for most applications.
GraphQL. Talk about the next NoSQL fiasco in the making. Perhaps you missed the whole saga of everyone doing new development in NoSQL and then a few years later we had the flurry of blog posts about "Why are we losing data? I didn't realize ACID was so important..."
