Just like most things, the answer is "it depends" since it's really not that simple. This is a great article but the answer seems obvious to me. The web today

Just like most things, the answer is "it depends" since it's really not that simple. This is a great article but the answer seems obvious to me. The web today is starting to get divided into apps and sites. HN is a site for example. It is small, loads fast etc and works well for it's intended use case. When I listen to music or podcasts in a web site, I want it to act like an app and for that to happen more stuff has to happen in the client. Thus leading to a longer load time and execution time. This is something I can live with though, since I can do stuff on the web that was impossible just a few years ago. I am also developing apps that was impossible to do on the web a few years ago. I want to use both sites like looking up that store and order some stuff and apps like doing design or consuming music and video. I prefer web apps that are done well rather than native apps. I don't have to download anything and they are free from the shackles of Apple, Google and Microsoft. Also, you don't have to make them bloated and big. You don't have to use a framework. You can use web components and maybe some small router library and you have the most important stuff a front end framework gives you. Just check fastmail, their client is super fast and is a very well done SPA app. Then you can look at Reddit, which is a horrible mess. Like any app, any language you can make the experience shitty and you can make it awesome.