HTMX definitely chips at some of the use cases of SPAs. What percent of cases? I don't have that answer. And yes, Phoenix is a very interesting thing, but it's

HTMX definitely chips at some of the use cases of SPAs. What percent of cases? I don't have that answer. And yes, Phoenix is a very interesting thing, but it's most likely only viable because of it being Erlang under the hood (needs a process running for each client, hence ultra cheap Erlang processes being a good fit). > when you visit some site like anandtech it is by no means accidental that the layout rerenders endlessly because each rerender is a chance that a click on a link is transmogrified into a click on an ad I think you went a bit too far into the conspiracy theory there. An element for which the height is not defined (via HTML or CSS) gets rendered usually to 1x1 pixel, which forces a redraw if the element turns out later to have width and height (like an image that takes half of a second to download). Which, IMO, means web developers are not bothering to put sizes in delayed-loading elements, which points a bit more to the incompetence side than the malice side. But ads probably not specifying width and height would also indicate significant malice, can't rule that out.