You nailed it. Built-in components do as much work as possible directly on the client. Any Python code however runs on the server. This makes it dead-simple to

You nailed it. Built-in components do as much work as possible directly on the client. Any Python code however runs on the server. This makes it dead-simple to e.g. connect to your database and also gives you the full power of real CPython, not just a cut-down WASM/transpiled version.