[RowanH]

I have to agree. I'm a OG Rails dev looking and constantly compare the productivity of old school SSR sites compared to current complex SPA frameworks. People how tie themselves in knots, the UI interactions are tricky to get right, more places to code, then second guess the frameworks, then try it again. SSR Rails apps just had 3, maybe 4 places to write code - controllers, models, view folders - you can flip back and forth in blinding pace, and get your app up and running really, really quickly. Yes agree there's some places SPA's are really applicable. But watching an app get built that you see no distinct advantage for either end user or dev team makes you wonder.