whenever you say something really normal like "websites used to be better" there's always one guy whos like. got some shit in his bio about working for a major tech company. and he's always like "that actually isn't true, websites actually used to be really Bad, we used to use <marquee> tags! but now we have React.js and its good"
and you might think the part about how it reloads data without refreshing the whole page is good, well, that's why your browser's back button is vestigial these days