[pfhayes]

Forcing a reload is a regression compared to the "standard" method proposed at the start of the article. If you have a REST API that requests attributes about a model, and the client is responsible for the presentation of that model, then it is much easier to support outdated clients (perhaps outdated by weeks or months, in the case of mobile apps) without interruption, because their pre-existing logic continues to work

[yawaramin]

Arguable that it's a 'regression'...loading pages is kinda the normal behaviour in a web browser. You can try to paper over that basic truth but you can't abstract it away forever. Also, the original comment I replied to said it would be a 'big challenge', but if you accept that the web is the web and sometimes pages can load or even reload, then it's not really a 'challenge' any more at all.