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I'm not a huge fan of putting client-side rendering on everything, but I still feel it's unfair and shallow to put so much blame on it.

For an app getting more than a couple page views in a session, a SPA solution may provide significant savings on rendering and db queries. Combine that with resource caching and these effects extend to following sessions.

That is, of course, if the app was built with some consideration regarding overall performance. Unfortunately, not too many web developers (both FE and BE) seem to be overly concerned with efficiency.