We do live in this paradigm of everything being in the cloud and clients are stupid and constantly need to sync, often times in a "stop the world" fashion. Last

We do live in this paradigm of everything being in the cloud and clients are stupid and constantly need to sync, often times in a "stop the world" fashion. Last time I used Twitter web I saw three spinners in the same screen. So that's a big factor as well. It's incredibly poor engineering culture imo, but again those are there because that's what they wanted to build.