Next.js is infuriating

In general Next.js has so many layers of abstraction that 99.9999% of projects don't need. And the ones that do are probably better off building a bespoke solution from lower level parts.

Next.js is easily the worst technology I've ever used.

I suppose the overly complicated ENV/.env loading hierarchy is (partly) needed because Windows doesn't (didn't?) have ENV vars. Same for inotify, port detection, thread management: *nix does it well, consistent ish. But when you want an interface or feature that works on both *nix and windows, in the same way, you'll end up with next.js alike piles of reinvented wheels and abstractions (that in the end are always leaking anyway)

Nope, windows has had perfectly standard environment variables since the DOS days

Windows' command prompt requires two separate invocations:

    set KEY=value
    ./myApp

    $env:KEY='value'
    ./myApp

    [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('KEY', 'value')
    ./myApp