I agree, that among other things, one should make it dependent on how the user interacts with the service. In think it makes perfect sense that apps like Slack

I agree, that among other things, one should make it dependent on how the user interacts with the service. In think it makes perfect sense that apps like Slack, New Relic, etc. are SPAs. But in news/blog type sites for example, it often leads to worse user experience in my opinion. A lot of traffic (and for some sites probably the majority) is external, directly pointing to an article. In that case, I rather have a full page reload when i happen to click on a related article after reading than watching a spinner for second(s) every time I land on their page somehow.