Directives Are Becoming the New Framework Lock In

I've gone back to using plain JS for client side. The standards have improved enough that nothing else is needed. There is just a very small initial building of the app layout but it pays off because it's tailored to the solution. The DOM has a good query API for HTML and CSS has enough selectors to do anything.

I look at these new frameworks, and tried NextJS, and it's such a huge overhead in learning the specific conventions and that comes with being dependent on the framework.