You're conflating web site and web app which I specifically called out. If you're building the new great gig delivery app, using the same API for a mobile app a

You're conflating web site and web app which I specifically called out. If you're building the new great gig delivery app, using the same API for a mobile app and web app isn't a big deal. My issue, and I think a serious issue with the web today, is all of the essentially static content treated like it has the same needs as some web app. Your gig delivery app needs to represent the instantaneous state of the database back end. Your blog post does not. JavaScript-based "sites" are often little better than the Flash sites they've replaced. They're often inaccessible, opaque to search engines, break linking, and are also opaque to microbrowsers [0]. For every site that relies on JavaScript but doesn't have those problems there's dozens that do. [0] https://24ways.org/2019/microbrowsers-are-everywhere/ https://24ways.org/2019/microbrowsers-are-everywhere/