You get to at least see the content much faster, it's just not interactive for a bit. The benefit is clearest when rendering pages at build time and then servin

You get to at least see the content much faster, it's just not interactive for a bit. The benefit is clearest when rendering pages at build time and then serving the HTML over a CDN But even then, it's definitely still a problem vs sites that don't have to be hydrated. Some people see this approach as a best-of-both-worlds, but in reality it's still a compromise that has costs