Yes. Thanks to the merchants of complexity:

https://thenewstack.io/developers-rail-against-javascript-merchants-of-complexity/

Otherwise, NASA, White House, Techcrunch, Reuters et al are running on PHP via WordPress while innumerable small, medium and large businesses still run on PHP via WordPress or custom apps... The JavaScript complexity was a trapping of the VC-cash flush mainstream tech. And it is crashing down because the free cash ran out with the end of the zero-interest economy and the mainstream tech bottom line cant tolerate the complexity anymore.