Hot take: if your entire model depends on a visible hop to a second URL, you're playing a game the platforms retired years ago — and bragging about it dates you instantly.
The redirect crowd loves it because it's easy to reason about and easy to swap. That's exactly why it's the first pattern every review pipeline learned to smell. The on-the-same-surface crowd has a harder build and a worse debugging life, but they're not lighting a flare every time someone clicks.
Easy to operate and easy to detect are usually the same property wearing two hats.
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The redirect-vs-same-page debate is a maturity test
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