One of the first products I built with Relay was a server rendered app with preloading and all sorts of bells and whistles for incremental loading. Think Twitte

One of the first products I built with Relay was a server rendered app with preloading and all sorts of bells and whistles for incremental loading. Think Twitter Lite, but faster and a couple of years earlier. I didn't ship it because the client side JS was unnecessary for most use cases, and the old server generated site outperformed the client rendered one. I put the user ahead of the tech. But then I see the rest of our industry heaps praise upon people who build worse products because they want to use a shiny technology. Twitter Lite fell into the exact same trap I did, but they shipped anyway. Their no-JS site is an order of magnitude faster than their New and improved "Lite" version.