I came here to say basically this. Complaining that a content-centric site like the New York Times loads 2.8mb of data just to load an article is completely val

I came here to say basically this. Complaining that a content-centric site like the New York Times loads 2.8mb of data just to load an article is completely valid because it's entirely unnecessary, and makes the end user experience noticeably worse. But let's not generalize that by dismissing all single-page applications; sometimes a heavy frontend really is the best solution.