<p><pre><code> > I don’t see enough value in the added complexity and the increasingly complicated API surface.
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This very much. For my own work and personal projects, the pages router has been more than enough.<p>In terms of the complicated API surface and the difficulty to grasp newer concepts introduced with the app router, it continuously reminds me a couple lines of the Zen of Python[0]:<p><pre><code> > If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
> If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
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[0] <a href="https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/" rel="nofollow">https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/</a>