SSR wouldn't mean it'd be faster because it could have still been coded like spaghetti. You sound reasonable and I'm not directing this to you in particular, b

SSR wouldn't mean it'd be faster because it could have still been coded like spaghetti. You sound reasonable and I'm not directing this to you in particular, but there is a clear bias on HN that SPA sites are inherently slower or less performant, which is not true at all. Either can be fast or slow. The debate around SPA and SSR is so heated and centered on the front-end bit that people forget that UX performance depends a lot on the server. Websites are client-server systems regardless of the front-end architecture. I'd wager that the case of GCP is no different and that the perceived slow UIs are caused by problems all across the stack.