Unfortunately, every otherwise static site using a framework like AngularJS becomes a webapp by definition, whether they need to be or not.<p>I think a lot of the problem is that it&#x27;s no longer considered <i>professional</i> to do otherwise. You can put a javascript framework on your resume, but writing your own html, css and javascript comes across as carving your own canoe with a flint axe, and the &quot;minimum viable product&quot; for more and more sites involves more and more javascript by default.<p>No one even bothers try to optimize, or learning how to think outside the box that jQuery and frameworks put them into because it&#x27;s just assumed you can pile on as much javascript as you like it&#x27;ll just <i>work</i>, as if bandwidth and RAM are practically infinite. And for the most part, that point of view is correct... but eventually, the end users are going to notice that things are slower than they should be.