Next.js is infuriating

A lot of companies have Nextjs as a requirement, you can see it in the job posts. It's almost like React = Nextjs, where they don't even mention React. There are developers out there who are highly invested in Vercel's business. Ultimately, the dev teams are responsible for making these decisions.

I've encountered issues based on Nextjs in a few projects where the best approach was to eliminate it.

The outcome was nicer and higher development satisfaction.

If you dare to say that you had to get rid of Nextjs from a particular project, during a job interview, you're done!

I talked to a computer science student who told me that React is old, no one is using that anymore. He said now NextJS is the thing to use. No matter how hard I tried to explain to him that NextJS is a framework that uses React, he would not listen or understand. Scary times ahead.