I agree that server rendered would be faster, just the article had presented the absolute best-case scenario for the server. That said there could be other trad

I agree that server rendered would be faster, just the article had presented the absolute best-case scenario for the server. That said there could be other tradeoffs at play. Maybe loading the JavaScript and requesting a small amount of JSON each page is faster loading the initial page and then scrolling 10 pages down is faster than the server rendering out each page and appending it to the end.