I don't think parent doesn't know this can still be done; it's just that culturally this is not valued anymore and it's often not taught to beginners.
The same thing happened on frontend: all the juniors bootcampers' only experience of doing frontend development is running create-react-app and hacking away at React.
Before that it was angular.
Everybody would frown at deploying a pure frontend js app or a jQuery app, in the same way most people would frown at deploying a PHP script on Apache.
Despite this, a huge portion of the internet runs on PHP and jQuery (including shiny new things, like levels.io's million making 1-2 men saas).
The same thing happened on frontend: all the juniors bootcampers' only experience of doing frontend development is running create-react-app and hacking away at React. Before that it was angular.
Everybody would frown at deploying a pure frontend js app or a jQuery app, in the same way most people would frown at deploying a PHP script on Apache.
Despite this, a huge portion of the internet runs on PHP and jQuery (including shiny new things, like levels.io's million making 1-2 men saas).