SPAs and useful URLs are in no way mutually exclusive.

I think people who don’t understand the web talk it down to make themselves feel superior.

> I think this is it more than anything. People wanted to make the web complicated because it made them feel cooler developing it.

That is patently false. What happened is product managers wanted their websites to feel cooler to their customers, and work more like native apps. Developers then respond to the requests from the product managers. For example, charts that refresh data without a page reload when you click a button. The requirements get more and more complex, and the web was never meant to be an application platform. So you end up with what we have today.

This comment (and so many others on this thread) demonstrates such a complete lack of understanding of web development and SPAs.

Knowing as little as you do about SPAs, why do you think you would be able to understand all the intricacies of the problems they solve. Don't claim that people

> make the web complicated because it made them feel cooler developing it

just because you don't understand the issues.

It would be like me claiming that pro golfers wear golf shoes "just to look cool", when in reality, golf shoes probably offer some advantage that I'm just not aware of.