[jonahx]

To use your analogy, what if a popular screwdriver company started a trend among young carpenters to use their screwdriver handles as hammers? And then large numbers of carpenters were driving nails with screwdriver handles instead of hammers?

That is where the SPA slamming is coming from.

It's not that people fail to grasp the concept of different tools for different jobs.

[jack_riminton]

Exactly. 80+ % of all web dev jobs I see have some sort of SPA requirement

I'd guess that only about 20% need to be an SPA and the rest is cargo culting