I feel that this argument is pretty outdated at this point.

Most new SPAs people build use frameworks like NextJS that solve all of the big complaints.

Sure, there's plenty of old, crufty SPAs from the pre-react-router days still out there. I also dislike those apps.

I guess my point is... there was a time when you could blanketly hate SPAs and be mostly right about the category. And you could be mad at a company for even daring to try because they were very likely to screw it up. But I think we are now past that period. SPAs are now pretty awesome and fast and good!

Edit: ah, this article is from 2016. Which actually was a very valid time to hate SPAs! Maybe this is a good moment to applaud the hard work of folks at Vercel for fixing the problem :-)