I really like having a good old RESTful API (well maybe kinda faking the name because don't need HATEOAS usually)!

Except I find most front end stacks to lead to either endless configuration (e.g. Vue with Pinia, router, translation, Tailwind, maybe PrimeVue and a bunch of logic for handling sessions and redirects and toast messages and whatnot) and I feel the pull to just go and use Django or Laravel or Ruby on Rails mostly with server side templates - I much prefer that simplicity, even if it feels a bit icky to couple your front end and back end like that.