Absolutely, this is the number one issue I have with next.js - they did a huge ecosystem-splitting update, but now recommend switching to the new paradigm for any issues with the old all while saying they are maintaining the old.
Which issue? There are certain issues that are non-issues in the App Router, and simply not possible in the Pages Router without a significant amount of foundational changes. Which, those changes are, the App Router. That’s why we’ve been focusing on making incremental adoption easy. I think there’s still room to make it smoother (hard navigations between pages/app, metadata codemods for next/head) ad well.
