[Tloewald]

I think that someone coming to the field cold is going to be sucked into the vortex of enthusiasm surrounding one or more frameworks and, eventually either become a die-hard fan of some specific stack or jaded by the phenomenon.

I'm a member of the second group since, like 1995.

Right now we're on the nth cycle of lemming like enthusiasm which is currently favoring React because it just tried Angular two years ago and writing a new site with React sounds a whole lot more awesome than fixing the incomprehensible pile of crap you wrote in Angular which, guess what, seemed like a great idea at the time because of the mess you made with jquery UI.