Notice the fast decline in the last 20 years?
Even active X was less crappy than the most well-polished actual react project, and active X was crap.
Even java applets did more and in an easier way than modern frameworks and JS shit.
One simple page, with login, logout, some search, and navigation nowadays require a few plugins, router, state management, lib for requests, lib to handle cookies, lib for JWT, etc...
One simple page, with login, logout, some search, and navigation nowadays require a few plugins, router, state management, lib for requests, lib to handle cookies, lib for JWT, etc...