Yep... I mean, part of that is a problem of "SPA everything" cargo cult; basic web page? SPA everything! Content management? SPA everything! I manage my wife's

Yep... I mean, part of that is a problem of "SPA everything" cargo cult; basic web page? SPA everything! Content management? SPA everything! I manage my wife's electronic store that's based on WordPress, and I see absolutely no reason for ever changing it. I've written a bunch of custom scripts, all in PHP back-end and jquery front-end, and... It just works. And it's fast. And complexity is totally manageable. But, I've also written a few SPAs for her business deployed as PWAs, and I can't even begin to think about how it would look like if I was using jquery for these tasks. React (or Vue or whatever) is an escape hatch from going insane in such situations.