You moved the goalposts from "The simplest way to build a high-quality website" to "there are benefits to using Astro".
> The thing you linked doesn't meet the bar I'm aiming for, either for the resulting site or for the experience of building it.
And now you're applying a standard that was never claimed to have been met.
There's a way this back-and-forth could have gone, which is right after I emphasize that "The simplest way to build a high-quality site" doesn't belong at the top of the page because it doesn't reflect what you're actually doing, then you say, "Oh yeah, I see what you mean. I went ahead and changed it to something that's more accurate and (a little less hyperbolic). I'm not trying to fundamentally throw out the experience that people who are already familiar with building sites with conventional NodeJS-based frameworks like Astro are used to. Just trying to make it a little easier."
> The thing you linked doesn't meet the bar I'm aiming for, either for the resulting site or for the experience of building it.
And now you're applying a standard that was never claimed to have been met.
There's a way this back-and-forth could have gone, which is right after I emphasize that "The simplest way to build a high-quality site" doesn't belong at the top of the page because it doesn't reflect what you're actually doing, then you say, "Oh yeah, I see what you mean. I went ahead and changed it to something that's more accurate and (a little less hyperbolic). I'm not trying to fundamentally throw out the experience that people who are already familiar with building sites with conventional NodeJS-based frameworks like Astro are used to. Just trying to make it a little easier."
Instead we got this.