Last time I dabbled in a front-end I tried out Astro but felt like it just added another layer of complexity without much gain when all my components were just wrapping React in different ways. I went with react router instead.

I can see the value of the "islands" concept when you have a huge front-end that's grown over generations of people working on it.

For my constrained front-end debugging Astro errors on top of React errors on top of whatever all the turtles down felt a like a step too far.

Am I in my Rust centered back-end driven brain missing something?