The wild thing about this is that for the longest time, URLs were the mechanism for maintaining state on a page. It is only with the complete takeover of JavaScript-based web pages that we even got away from this being "just the way it is". Browsers and server-rendered pages have a number of features that folks try their best to recreate with javascript, and often recreate it rather poorly.

Yes and the comments in this thread don’t give me much hope that we will ever progress from the SPA mess to the idea that „simple is best“. Developers love to overengineer.