holofernes

That is a good point. The hard part of programming is the modeling. And your point leads to another, easy modeling is why JSON as a format (and its programming interface, JavaScript) is so appealing. I guess it's a trade off: complex modeling and state transfer vs. sometimes inscrutable magic asset loading, client/server programming model, losing the natural behavior of the web, and all the other criticisms in the article and elsewhere.

Finally some love for the anti-SPA crowd. Subjective here, but there's something nice about Post Redirect Get and Plain Ol' Hyperlinks from a User Experience. Whenever I interact with a regular web application, I am relieved. Not every "forms over data" or ecommerce experience has to be Gmail. Even in mobile.. SPA just isn't that much nicer. Also, I think maintaining these SPAs is ridiculously more difficult.

I don't think the SPA juice is worth the squeeze.