alt Hacker News> I don't really see any user defined input that would change the output.
I feel like the distinction between static websites and SPAs has been lost in the last decade, despite it being in the name _single page application_.
The point of SPAs is not "it's more interactive than a static website is", but "I don't need to fetch the new page and wait it to load as I navigate". You can have any custom behavior just by adding JavaScript. That's something we have from 30+ years.
"applications" don't interrupt the user as you navigate, and we tried to replicate that on the browser, by having history and render JavaScript controlled.
> each navigation had to reload the whole page
Saving the world, 50ms at a time.
Honestly there are times when using the View Transition API makes sense, but the context here is a dinky brochure site. The weight of scripting does as much damage to first load as it saves on subsequent loads. Browsers are good enough at managing this stuff themselves.