That and also the CEO posting a photo of him posing with a war criminal. Using let alone relying on Vercel baffles me.

Which one? There's so many these days I've lost track.

It feels like the political forces underpinning the software industry are coming to light but it seems like there are two opposing forces now instead of just one.

It's interesting that Next is becoming so popular when LLMs supposedly have a capability to work with all these other frameworks that don't create a dependency on something like Vercel.

You don't have to use Vercel to run NextJS though