> Rendering HTML server-side is just nice. It's simple and easy to work with. Weird states are unusual. The user gets a really normalized, predictable experienc

> Rendering HTML server-side is just nice. It's simple and easy to work with. Weird states are unusual. The user gets a really normalized, predictable experience. And done well/quickly, there's little actual difference. It has also been forgotten that people used to complain about 100ms of latency. Since then, modern users (especially mobile) have been trained to accept horrible latencies that would have gotten you excoriated back in 2000. 100ms of latency is MUCH more difficult to deal with server side than 2-3 seconds of latency. 2-3 seconds is an eternity with modern clouds and modern network connections.