As someone who spends a large portion of their working day developing single-page applications, I do value the simplicity of these server-side rendered sites.

As someone who spends a large portion of their working day developing single-page applications, I do value the simplicity of these server-side rendered sites. I mostly enjoy where things landed (with React, JSX, etc), but it would be nice to have the best of both worlds. Yes, there is SSR (server-side rendering) support, but it's not trivial to implement, unless perhaps you're on a greenfield project.