This post includes recommendations for teams that are procuring websites, and I think they can be summed up as: *buy simpler problems*.

Every feature that gets added via JavaScript is more complex, more expensive, and harder to improve. That means that when things go wrong, they're treble costly to fix because JS is *"f-it! we'll do it live!"* for web development. JS disables or routes around all the ways the browsers try to help.

Let browsers help!

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-way-out/

Reckoning: Part 4 — The Way Out

JavaScript overindulgence remains an affirmative choice, no matter how hard industry 'thought leaders' gaslight us. Better is possible, but we must want it enough to put users ahead of our own interests.

Alex Russell
@slightlyoff Though I would argue "DX" is a smokescreen created by the bosses that translates to "build as fast as possible while paying the fewest number of salaries" Devs were just forced to internalize it.