sure, for me the line is clearly on the side of "scrolling through boxes of text and basic commenting" = website, since that was the case in 1995. my point was that if you took a screenshot of facebook today and when it launched, other than some cosmetic improvements, you couldn't tell me which version warranted extreme dynamic application logic and which was just a dumb server generated HTML page. the point being that it shouldn't be necessary to do all the stuff in this post to get this result, but it is, because our field has failed to build better generalized solutions to these problems.
just gonna to chime in to say: yea, this is a defensible position IMO. where FB falls is debatable (they have a ton of features / different UI elements / etc), but I can see where you're coming from.
tbh I think the vast majority of this engineering absurdity is to prevent teams from stepping on each other unknowingly, not for any direct end-user benefit. a lot of work goes into "make it so I don't have to work with X to get my work done" in all businesses, and... I dunno. it's not always a bad thing, but it does feel like quite a lot of waste.
