> so I still have to wait an annoyingly long time > it drops every 10th request If the app saves data to a server, that's gonna happen regardless anyways (and

> so I still have to wait an annoyingly long time > it drops every 10th request If the app saves data to a server, that's gonna happen regardless anyways (and one could argue that techniques like optimistic updates might make the experience even worse) Also remember that HTML can be streamed and partially rendered even if it's not fully downloaded, and the investment required to enable this is minimal. The same cannot be said about a SPA's data fetching/rendering strategies. Having worked on bloated apps before, I despise when people throw around the word "prefetching" as if it's some sort of magic spell. At best it eats my battery and bandwidth needlessly, and at worst, it's weasel wording for slowing down time-to-first-pixel :(