I just don’t get it. There’s nothing that could beat an one-time json download per product category. Not even “apply filters”, which I see less and less often with years. Unless a store has thousands of products and vague categories, ofc (but not in my cases).

If there is something beyond Hanlons Razor, I’d like to understand by which metric it works and how. E.g. how fetching 30 rows 10 times through different params compares to fetching 200-300 rows once, assuming various sorts of caching, etc. If everyone does it, it’s either a common methodic or a common ui-fad incompetence. But then even a shallow search should yield at least some results. It doesn’t.