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(i work there) lets just say this has not escaped our attention and we even discussed holding off launching until we had an easy way to log an incremental pageview from the clientside. ultimately we decided to ship first and iterate later. limiting the scope was definitely helpful running up to the launch.

Should be noted that Netlify provides a lot of tools for JAMstack sites, like their Netlify CMS (which you can self-host if you're determined) and Netlify Functions.

If you need the SPA framework for productivity reasons, then you could use something like Gridsome to have it generate a static site.

I was thinking the same. Realistically, I believe the only way you could do that on the client would be JS. But if they added that, it would change all their feel good marketing about no JS...

Woops