Yeah, I just tried it and it's horrible! I'm all for making things work without JS, but demonstrating that my experience can be equally bad with plain HTML+CSS

Yeah, I just tried it and it's horrible! I'm all for making things work without JS, but demonstrating that my experience can be equally bad with plain HTML+CSS doesn't feel like an improvement. Anyway we can have SPAs with a working back button and a working address bar with sufficient competence and motivation. Links in a new tab would work if all the state was in the URL, but messy URLs are unfashionable these days.