Chris McCord, quoted in the article, explains extremely well the absurd state of stateless http requests, from a perspective that is not appreciated in the article (queued to 40m50s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhNv1ikZNLs&list=PLqj39LCvnO...

The programming model (in liveview, don't know about blazor or hotwire or livewire) really lets you get better performance by doing less. A part of me sarcastically thinks wow, damn, deleting data is irreversible data transformation and therefore increases entropy, every stateless http request is inching us closer to the heat death of the universe.