Well there are other benefits. [1] Though I suspect you're just talking about cases that are best chalked up to: there's no accounting for the logic of the ill

Well there are other benefits. [1] Though I suspect you're just talking about cases that are best chalked up to: there's no accounting for the logic of the illogical. [1] If you want to ensure a separation between display code and business logic, it's not a bad way to draw a line; some heavily data-driven problems do tangibly benefit from fetching JSON and formatting on the client; solutions that have multiple views on essentially the same data sets benefit in much the same way that solutions with multiple clients benefit; etc.