Many people compare SPAs vs "traditional" MVC with full page reloads or jQuery spaghetti, not realizing nowadays there are great intermediate solutions which don't take as much effort as SPAs by a long shot, such as Unpoly, Hotwire, etc.
It's unfair to compare a highly over engineered React application vs a lazily built jQuery mess.
It's unfair to compare a highly over engineered React application vs a lazily built jQuery mess.