Comment by elktown
4 hours ago
Not everything needs to be a SPA. I genuinely believe that the web would've been a much better place today on most important metrics (performance, simplicity, accessibility etc.) if this SPA shift would've never happened. The opportunity cost seems massive to me.
Most software I've used could have been a few hundred lines of PHP. But then they'd be done in like a day, which is great if you're a business owner (and the reason Pieter Levels uses PHP, for example), but not so great if you need to get paid to keep churning the code indefinitely (i.e. most people's situation)... and ideally hire all your friends to help too ;)
There are indeed less user-centric metrics with surprising weight when it comes down to it. I've also noticed that "We read a FAANG blog post and got enchanted" is easily remembered as "Everything was bad and we had to change it all" ;).