Logically if you want to rip out work from the client you would put more work into the backend? I don't understand what you're getting at. CRUD may be fast on

Logically if you want to rip out work from the client you would put more work into the backend? I don't understand what you're getting at. CRUD may be fast on the server side, but if the client is performing a complex workflow of CRUD calls, you're incurring the round-trip network cost each time. The more you can coalesce the workflow on the server side, the lower round-trip network costs you'll incur, which is the real bottleneck here (10ms server processing time vs a wild range of 10ms-1000+ms network latency, depending on where you are/what you're on).