Moving to client-side rendering via React means less server load spent generating boilerplate HTML over and over again. If you have a captive audience, you can

Moving to client-side rendering via React means less server load spent generating boilerplate HTML over and over again. If you have a captive audience, you can get away with making the product shittier because it's so difficult for anyone to move away from it - both from an engineering standpoint and from network effects.