Or - get 90% of the benefit of SPAs but leave your business logic where it belongs (on the server). PJAX/Turbolinks/Intercooler or something similarly lightweight is probably all most people need when they reach for full-fat front-end framework.
Yes, for personal projects I've moved away from SPAs to backend frameworks and as little JS as I can get away with. I admit I don't know how easy Turbolinks or PJAX are. A while back when i played around with Intercooler in Django it wasn't seamless.
Turbolinks and PJAX are really what a lot of folks wanted before the web development community at large was introduced to client-side routing through SPAs post-Knockout.js days.
