Nope, not saying they went full circle, just that they went from one extreme (client side code bad) to another (client side code as inevitable fact of life and why question that?).

And tangentially, I was pointing out more recently that the grumpy position from older times actually would have prevented some real world problems. (Spectre and meltdown go from being local privilege escalation bugs to "holy shit you can own my machine if I visit a web page")