I agree with the others. Those are signs of bad software dev, not SPAs in particular. It's relatively easy now to break up the 7MB bundle into chunks and load

I agree with the others. Those are signs of bad software dev, not SPAs in particular. It's relatively easy now to break up the 7MB bundle into chunks and load on demand. So you get the benefit of both the fast, small initial load while other stuff loads in the background. Then I'm not sure what you're referring to on links and waiting for single interactions... With SPAs it's actually easier with the History API to create deeply nested stateful apps via the url / links. The confirmation modal, maybe your backend API sucks? Idk what your talking about with a 6s delay. On top of that, a pure SPA means you have a static website, which means you can host the whole app off something like S3. We save so much money by hosting our stuff statically.