[brightball]

Most of the problem, IMO, is that everybody seems to think that everything needs to be a SPA.

The reality is that 99% of web applications are "open, check, close" experiences which benefit very little, if at all, from a front-end framework of any kind.

The remaining applications that people actually keep open for long periods of time where the DOM needs to update over long periods of time are the only places where this approach really provides a huge benefit. Things like a chat system or actual web based software that people would be expected to keep working on throughout their day. For those types of application, React is a good fit.

The biggest issue is people jumping on this "we need a front-end framework" train when...you really don't for most things.