NextJS has a lot of significant drawbacks, that's why there's an ongoing debate (which is healthy):

- Cost

- Complexity

- Learning curve

- Scalability

- Frequent changes

- And surprisingly bad performance compared with the direct competitors

Nowadays, NextJS is rarely the best tool for the job. Next and React are sitting in the "never got fired for buying IBM" spot. It is a well earned position, as both had a huge innovational impact.

Do you need best in class loading and SEO with some interactivity later on? Astro with islands. Vitepress does something similar.

Do you need a scalable, cost efficient and robust stack and have moderate interactivity? Traditional SSR (RoR, Django, .NET MVC, whatever) with maybe some HTMX.

Do you have a highly interactive app? Fast SPA like Svelte, Solid or Vue.