Hot module replacement masks a lot of annoyances for end users. Yes its more instantaneous than reloading a page and relying on urls for all of the state and I am not advocating hard for abolishing HMR anymore, but it would be nice if we still used way more url state than currently the case. Browsers will also hibernate tabs to varying degrees, server sessions expire all the time, things are not shareable. The only thing that works as users expect is url state. One thing i absolutely hate about ios apps is how every state is lost if i just have the app in the background for a few seconds, this even applies to major apps like youtube, google maps, many email clients etc. Why do we live in this stupid world were things are not getting better, just because someone made things more convenient for developers?

PS: and i curse the day the social media brainwashed marketing freak coined the term "deep link" to mean just a normal link as its supposed to work.