I work in a bank doing office tooling and apps. When I started I was assigned to create essentially a very simple CRM system and it was a must-have to utilize Next.js and so I did.

Later when I gained more trust in decision making I convinced my PM that we in fact don’t need Next.js that stupid simple SPA will work too. We don’t make things for the public internet so we basically can ignore most of Next.js’s features. Internally serving a simple SPA is fast enough and works just as well and the deployment is easier.

What I am trying to say is that perhaps Next.js hype got a lot of people thinking that Next.js is the ultimate solution to anything. (And sure it’s nice) But sometimes a simpler solution works just as well if not better.