It feels like so much work has been done to just end up going full circle back to Django-style website applications. All of these frameworks have continually re-solved problems that were already solved in something other than Javascript, and then people write blogs about how they're surprised about it. It feels a bit uncanny to see.
Promo packets are a hell of a drug
I am happy to have stayed mostly in Java and .NET land all these two decades, although I do have to put with Next.js for the last three years as well.
These days I get a lot of deju vu with ASP.NET's web forms from 20 years ago.