People vastly underestimate how complex client side code can get and how much automatic functionality browsers hand you. Whereas a nice web framework has users, permissions, session management, templating, validations and forms all set up for you with battle tested out of the box behaviors.
A frontend framework is great if you are a company that really needs to slim down bandwidth and can hire expensive devs to maintain it. But for a simple no nonsense business application it’ll just slow you down and will gravitate towards being a mess.
The online ad industry is super shady and is getting much worse since google and facebook have started eating their lunch. But it would be very hard to pull data collection out of this business model. If company a puts the lawnmower ad up and only reports clicks and company b reports the percentage of men aged 35-40 company b will eventually put company a out of business. Content providers have to run what ads will actually make them money so they’re going to go with networks where companies actually buy ads. The only way this cycle is going to get stopped is with serious pushback either from consumers, technology or laws.
I really wish there was some sort of proper monetization model for rss. The web has no reason to be this obnoxious pile of bloated unreadable spyware. I want to support more of these companies because I think what they do is important but it gets hard to justify 10 bucks a month for each of them. When I try and whitelist ads I often find I can’t even find content on the site anymore and my browser slows to a crawl.
A frontend framework is great if you are a company that really needs to slim down bandwidth and can hire expensive devs to maintain it. But for a simple no nonsense business application it’ll just slow you down and will gravitate towards being a mess.