You've betrayed your bias in your choice of words, though: "app." And, for that matter, choosing the word "as" instead of "if." I'm not personally building app

You've betrayed your bias in your choice of words, though: "app." And, for that matter, choosing the word "as" instead of "if." I'm not personally building apps, and I'm certainly not building things that need to be single-page apps. I'm building websites. They may be dynamic, they may include interactive elements on the page, but they're still mostly just plain old websites with limited state to manage. Which is fine by me. I suspect, that, were it not for those social constraints I described up above, that would be fine for most websites. One of the other problems with complexity is that it's addictive. You get a taste of it in a situation where you actually need it, and next thing you know you're afraid to go anywhere without it, because you're worried (or is it hopeful?) that you might need it again.