Exactly! Single page applications are such an abuse of everything the web was supposed to be about. We already have well thought out UI toolkits for making rich desktop applications but the web crazy made people instead abuse web technology as far as possible to do what it was never intended to do.

I am not necessarily a huge Java fan, but I am thinking that if what you want is a cross platform UI application then just use the JVM. If you are not happy with how it looks then industry leaders should have gotten together and defined a better standard.

Web apps seems to a large degree due to a desire for a simple deployment system. But app stores have shown you can perfectly well create smooth systems for delivering applications.

Speaking of single page applications. I was thinking of making a web app the other day and it occurred to me just how much easier it is to do it the old fashion way. I have spent some time with Electron before and I got to say I thought it was a lot to chew over. Sometimes when I talk to people about these things it seems to me that people do things more because they can, or because it is the "new" way rather than because it is the smart choice.

If your needs a simple, then why make an SPA? Just keep it simple.