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> webpages on good connection are so fast

Not everyone has this, espicially when your someone like myself who writes informational websites for people who won't be connected to any internet for hours at a time.

Super fast response times don't cut it when your response time is non existent at the moment.

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If your internet connectivity breaks constantly, there is a good chance that a JS heavy client side app is going to irrecoverably break, require a hard refresh and take much longer to load because of your crap internet.

I should know, my internet connectivity sucks, and single page applications are almost without exception, a completely awful experience.

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