It’s amazing how trends in modern mainstream web development have seemingly inverted. One such example (an old bookmark) while following tech more closely in school;

Therefore by purposefully giving the user a blank page, we are giving him information that the app is still loading. The user knows that the app will be functional when he sees boxes and buttons.

The truth was it didn’t matter, at least, not so much as “position independent code”, kind of. Tech appears to do a ten year amnesiac/discovery routine. Web components arrived around that time too.