I wonder if you've actually talked to any users, or this is just your personal opinion.
I hate load times for apps, especially as I know it should be instant and all sites I architecture load instantly.
I hate load times for apps, especially as I know it should be instant and all sites I architecture load instantly.
The goal was to keep an average of <3.0s for the first meaningful paint, after login. Before login, all pages were treated with the same respect you'd treat any marketing page; render what you can as fast as you can.
Back with AngularJS, when code-splitting and lazy-loading modules/controllers wasn't an option, you had to get creative. Since moving to Vue, initial page load has never been an issue.