This guy unironically wrote an entire article about how to "get simplicity back" and avoid using server-side processing by doing a bunch of crazy convoluted JavaScript crap which runs on "the edge" (i.e. a server).
Hedonic treadmill. Even the people who are old enough to remember what simple used to be like have had their pain thresholds reset by the intervening years. And then there’s a bunch of recent vintage senior people who don’t know any other way.
You can't make this up.