Next.js Has a Middleware Problem

Next.js has long been positioned as the flagship React framework, powering countless production apps across the web. However, growing developer frustration is beginning to expose its limitations.  A recent blog post by developer Dominik Meca, titled ‘Next.js is Infuriating’, struck a chord across the community in Hacker News and Reddit, with many engineers echoing similar pain points. The issues are not isolated bugs; they reflect deeper cracks in how the framework handles middleware, logging and developer feedback. Meca sets out with what should be a simple task: setting up production-ready logging. Instead, what follows is a spiral of workarounds, broken abstractions and unanswered questions.  Meca’s verdict is unflinching. “How do you f**k this up so bad? We�