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.
— 2013, JavaScript top or bottom? 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.