wow, what's the reason for downgrading?

weird one, but we are migrating one of our services which was built on pages router to its own microservice, we started working with the app router but we came to alot of issues so we decided to revert back to pages and meet the deadline first

I don't understand what are the issues when you use app router

that doesn't happen in the page router

api routes no including the session cookies

app routes *, and we dont use next auth so we would need to use middleware

but managers decided to go back to pages

Sounds more like you're attempting to fetch your own server and naturally cookies aren't attached for server-side calls since it's not a browser.

Downgrading to the pages router is possible but the wrong approach if you're having issues as it won't fix your underlying problem as it's just completely working around it.

I agree but we have a compliance deadline to meet

so as a quick one its to downgrade and then we will look into it

I don't know how you used app router but the much you utlized the app router, the more difficult it would be to downgrade

I really feel like downgrading will take much more