A note about this moment We actually sat on this post for a while, taking time to figure out how best to present the facts and suggestions below, without it appearing as a takedown post. After all, we are in competition with Vercel in the platform space. Then, the recent security incident around Next.js middleware happened, triggering a small fire on social and drawing criticism about how the incident was handled. This article is not about that security incident. Rather, it is about the larger c...