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But what if we want a site that's more interactive than a blog?

Who's 'we'? The user, or the web dev? Most javascript exists to scratch the itch of the webdev who made it, doing shit no user ever asked for.

Well, people who don't want to keep refreshing the page to see the site update. That's not just "[scratching] the itch of the webdev who made it".