(* Now, although I agree with you that JDH is not as "powerful" as a GUI, I find that not to be a significant limitation in my work. *)
What I find is that managers keep wanting weblications to resemble VB-like GUI apps. JDH-CGI is crappy for that. The same app would be roughly about 1/2 to 1/3 as much code in a C/S GUI tool, be more natural UI-wize, and quicker to develop.
I don't like funky paradigms to get in the way of my vision of how I want the interface to be. I want to conduct a symphony with whatever instrument I feel like, within reason.
I will have more to post about this soon.
(* it forces me to think about bandwidth and workflow much more intentionally, *)
You like it because it herds and punishes you? Leave S&M to the hookers.
Just don't use bound countrols in C/S tools and filter large search lists/grids at the server stage, not on the client, and you shouldn't have that many bandwidth problems.