I don’t want to write an article but I think when SPAs are called for they are the least worst option.

Usually I want to ship an app to customers, but for that I need an app the targets Apple platforms, hopefully I can built it to target iOS, iPadOS and MacOS but maybe those are three different apps. I need an app that targets Android. I also need an app that targets Windows, and I need a linux app.

Then I need to distribute all those apps, so I need to get onto the AppStore for MacOS, the play store for linux, and whatever Huawei/other Chinese manufacturers use, and whatever amazon uses, and probably have an “official” APK available for stuff like fdroid.

I need a windows installer, maybe a portable package for windows, and get onto MSStore (which will then cover winget).

I need to pick some collection of linux distros to target, usually targeting having a deb release and rpm can be good enough. And you can build an “installer” yourself if you are so inclined.

Or I could just ship an SPA, I had to build out the same servers if the data was not local anyway.