While it does require your participation for success, you are paying the professional for the tools to help yourself. And sometimes others aren’t able to help themselves, and the professional’s job is to help them discover how to.
Nothing to do with each other, in the way that internet protocols would have nothing to do with how we purchase goods. Crypto creates a validated economy in a VR/AR world. Digital goods have a certain tangibility with crypto inside of a VR/AR environment, that creates true ownership.
SPAs arent meant for solving the issue of offline apps and building games in web browsers. Their target was to address the difficulty of building, maintaining, extending an ever changing UI in a corporate development environment.
Having worked on a ui in this setting, built with erb, jquery, and pjax... It is not about the degree of difficulty building it, but extending/modifying it, and collaborating with multiple crews in the same codebase. These are problems enough teams have experienced that they have moved away from the approach of jquery+handlebars.
Now granted, SPAs have a bandwagon effect because of where the job opportunities are, so you get people using them not to solve those problems, but to align their technical skills with employable skills.
Everyone uses these types of headlines to justify their positions.
The statement was meant to provoke people, and honestly if it wasn’t Netflix nobody would give a damn. Because the real headline is “We chose the wrong tool for the job! Even pros make mistakes”.