To be fair, some of those frameworks were compensating for JavaScript which had real issues as a quickly-becoming-popular language. SPAs were an answer to cros

To be fair, some of those frameworks were compensating for JavaScript which had real issues as a quickly-becoming-popular language. SPAs were an answer to cross platform and device issues, given the web browser was the best cross platform piece of software used by the largest population. It made sense to try that vs making native apps on all the different platforms. The fundamental problem in the web space spawning all of these tools has always been JavaScript’s weaknesses though.