I guess you've never used NextJS because it basically uses JS as a server side templating language, and since pages are by default server side rendered, there's no client side JS (unless you want to add it).
You can go to a server side NextJS rendered page that worked even when JS is disabled, that uses only HTML and CSS and no JS whatsoever.
You're right. As my other comment makes explicit, my wheelhouse is mostly Python. The last time I really dug into JS frameworks was about a decade ago, and was largely jQuery, D3, and friends.
Thanks for bringing to my attention something I didn't know!
