While I don't disagree about this problem, most of the comments in this thread are lacking significant context and ignoring obvious problems with server side re

While I don't disagree about this problem, most of the comments in this thread are lacking significant context and ignoring obvious problems with server side rendering. Wordpress is arguably the best and most prominent example of SSR. It is horrible, and a vanilla install of Wordpress generally returns content in 2-3 seconds. While Javascript adds bloat to the initial page load, generally it reduces significantly (or eliminates entirely) further page loads on a domain. For example, if I have an Vue app, it might take an extra second to load but then it will never have to load any client-side assets again (technically). The other thing that makes most of these arguments is that they are disingenuous when it comes to making arguments about payloads and computing. It takes may take a significant amount of processing power to generate a json payload, but it most certainly will take an ever larger amount to generate all of the scaffolding that goes with a normal HTML page. Redrawing the HTML on each page load also increases overall network traffic, duplicates load across every page on the service (see Wordpress, again), and centralises front-end complexity in the backend.