It is also touted as a way to grow engineering talent pools by subdividing into frontend and backend teams. This is not super convincing to me in a context where the only frontend is HTML given the enormous amount of extra work that a SPA takes to develop. It is more convincing in a context where there are native applications in the mix that would benefit from an API. So what will a future that involves both MPA-style frontends and APIs look like? I think one possibility is that backends will handle data in a more declarative fashion. In theory, doing so would allow a lot of the "glue" to be generated, and ultimately allow more flexibility on the frontend.
