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back button behavior is atrocious ....

But Javascript is awesome! Its the future.

Javascript doesn't inherently break the back button. Sloppy developers do.

Certainly, but sloppy developers using Javascript makes it way easier to break the back button than server-side rendering.

You can break the living hell out of the back button with server-centric solutions (hello asp.net, and POST's for everything)

Fair point. I feel like us server folk have figured that part out by now at least, the Javascript stuff is still quite the wild west on the client.