The hybrid approach really is the best of both worlds, and it makes perfect sense to do the heavy lifting on the server initially and then turn over everything

The hybrid approach really is the best of both worlds, and it makes perfect sense to do the heavy lifting on the server initially and then turn over everything to the client rather than doing the heavy lifting again for every single subsequent request. Every time this comes up though there is the snarky "lol SSR isn't new, are JS devs just learning about it???" type response here.