BBC did this 15 years ago on tiny computers compared to now. They uploaded static HTML onto Sun boxes and served them.
If you did a submission somewhere, it'd do offline processing and upload new static pages.
Most of this was C and perl.
No Scala, no Java, no Ruby.
iOS does HTML too you know.
I agree with the OP - most of this new technology doesn't really solve any problems. All it does is create an ecosystem you can feel superior being a member of.
Even better, it's a new ecosystem that interviewers will use as a screen to keep out people who don't know the new ecosystem, and so will require people to learn it, and then in 4 years it will be thrown away because no one does that any more. See, they've moved onto the even newer ecosystem.
If you did a submission somewhere, it'd do offline processing and upload new static pages.
Most of this was C and perl.
No Scala, no Java, no Ruby.
iOS does HTML too you know.
I agree with the OP - most of this new technology doesn't really solve any problems. All it does is create an ecosystem you can feel superior being a member of.