My experience matches yours for large organizations; fairly or not, if I’m booking a plane ticket through the airline, an SPA page makes me feel confident that there was some real work put into it, while a basic server-side forms + JS approach makes me worry it’s a semi-abandoned afterthought.
That’s reversed for websites & apps for small companies and startups. In those cases, SPAs tend to feel fragile, buggy, and full of weird defaults and unusual behavior, especially compared to the relative simplicity of a basic form with some JS sprinkles.
No idea why that is, or if the perception is even accurate.
please keep in mind server-side doesn't mean necessarily "basic"
you can have a server-side app and still have the same user experience as a full-blown SPA app, as long as you know what you must do in the client for a great user experience.
That’s reversed for websites & apps for small companies and startups. In those cases, SPAs tend to feel fragile, buggy, and full of weird defaults and unusual behavior, especially compared to the relative simplicity of a basic form with some JS sprinkles.
No idea why that is, or if the perception is even accurate.