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There is a distinction between an app and a site. An application has many partial state updates. Two updates is uncommon for an app. Way different for a website where people ideally land on the right page from a search engine. There is a place for an SPA but it's not everything.
We tend to stick with an SPA even for things which are mainly reads because we're more efficient in a single tech stack. Sadly we don't have big tech budgets to do everything. In theory the JS SPA backend can simply run in the backend if there's no need for an SPA. I had thought hydration and caching to have gotten way better by now but there's still a good way to go.