I feel like I'm being gaslit every time nextjs is discussed. I picked it up and learned it for a couple different projects because clients heard about it and wanted it. I kept finding shit like this in the OP post, making issues, asking around about it, and being told by nextjs experts that I was Doing Everything Wrong. Fine, I'll deploy on vercel, but wait this client wants to try cloudflare edge because he knows the ceo and wants to pitch for his investment firm having better access or whatever tf, so I need to get it running on that, so now I can't use some xyz version of some library, and I have to use some bleeding edge version of nextjs and... etc.

Every day that went by I wondered if I was going insane for thinking we should just go back to building apps in straight vanilla javascript. Or like, just react SPAs pointing at fastapi apps deployed on s3, which has never failed me.