Yes, but my point was that if I want my app to be "vanilla rails with jQuery" (which actually is all you need for most web apps), I actually WANT it to behave l

Yes, but my point was that if I want my app to be "vanilla rails with jQuery" (which actually is all you need for most web apps), I actually WANT it to behave like a "website", meaning I DON'T want it to behave like a single page app because it's confusing both for users and the developer (myself), which is where turbolinks comes in.