I wasn't sarcastic, I am just pointing out that most of the shiny single-page apps don't have to be shiny whatsoever. Take stooq.com for example, I am using it

I wasn't sarcastic, I am just pointing out that most of the shiny single-page apps don't have to be shiny whatsoever. Take stooq.com for example, I am using it because is reliable, fast and clean - but it still looks like from early 90'. The thing is, many companies decide to use fancy technologies/solution to bump theirs market value - it is not a way to go, but you cant change the environment. What's more - It is quite often a managers call to say 'we need our site to be cutting-edge', so they pick angular, react, whatever just because other companies do it.