I agree, and I'm more critical of heavy front end Javascript frameworks that are part and parcel of SPAs. Things like the Turbolinks hack you mention, IMO, prov

I agree, and I'm more critical of heavy front end Javascript frameworks that are part and parcel of SPAs. Things like the Turbolinks hack you mention, IMO, provide the best user experience, especially fast initial page load. But that can be messy to develop, so we end up with Angular or React which smooth the development issues, but make pages fat and slow for users.