It's amusing that for a long time the response was "oh man that sounds terrible".

Now it is "oh hey that's server side rendered ... is it a new framework?".

The cycle continues. I end up writing all sorts of things and there are times when I'm working on one and think "this would be better as Y" and then on Y "oh man this should be Z". There are days where I just opt for using old ColdFusion... it is faster for somethings.

Really though there's so many advantages to different approaches, the important thing is to do the thing thoughtfully.