I think the industry got caught up in all the cool new stuff that SPAs enabled. There’s a category of web apps that you simply can’t build without putting most of the state on the client (Google Docs, Figma etc.) and that category happens to contain most exciting web-based products that have been built lately. Not using an SPA was (is?) basically an admission that your website is and always will be “boring”.
We’re starting to (re-)discover that you can build interesting, profitable products that are technically boring.
We’re starting to (re-)discover that you can build interesting, profitable products that are technically boring.