I bet this is what people felt when JavaScript was first demoed on the web.
In the year 2077, when each font will run it's own virtual machine on WASM containing a "minimal" Ubuntu image, some enlightened blogger will suggest server side rendered fonts as a performance improvement.
JS felt less impressive to me when I first saw it, simply because it couldn't do much. However, I remember the showcase Microsoft put together to show off what CSS could do in IE3 and that was very cool at the time.
In the year 2077, when each font will run it's own virtual machine on WASM containing a "minimal" Ubuntu image, some enlightened blogger will suggest server side rendered fonts as a performance improvement.