...or developers think that. Or they pretend customers will care because they really want to play with their new framework.
Nowadays everything is a single page app, and for 90% of website/web apps it would be better (and orders of magnitude simpler) with good old server rendering. It would also be much faster.
Thats true, but people do crave complexity. If something is "too simple", often people, especially developers, are strangely suspicious of it being useful or competent. Present someone with something doing a couple things well but simply, you'll be normally greeted with a million comments of how it doesn't scale or give enough levers or do this or that.
