Is the author talking about information websites, websites with limited interactivity, or web applications that would feel more at home as desktop applications?
I honestly believe that many of the complaints about SPAs as a bad paradigm don't solve themselves with progressive enhancement; they solve themselves with a better cross-OS development environment and safe, sandboxed modern applets. (Alternatively, your company needs to be homogeneous, and third-party vendors need to develop for both Mac and Windows, and hope Wine is good enough for any other option.)
That leaves websites with limited interactivity. If the author is speaking about these, I can understand the frustration. I'd love to see solutions like liveview or htmx take over. Maybe other solutions will be good enough. However, for us to get beyond talking past each other on these conversations I think we need to always be considering the context and detail the use cases.
I honestly believe that many of the complaints about SPAs as a bad paradigm don't solve themselves with progressive enhancement; they solve themselves with a better cross-OS development environment and safe, sandboxed modern applets. (Alternatively, your company needs to be homogeneous, and third-party vendors need to develop for both Mac and Windows, and hope Wine is good enough for any other option.)
That leaves websites with limited interactivity. If the author is speaking about these, I can understand the frustration. I'd love to see solutions like liveview or htmx take over. Maybe other solutions will be good enough. However, for us to get beyond talking past each other on these conversations I think we need to always be considering the context and detail the use cases.