[netcommentator]

You don't do manual HTML manipulation with this lib either. You can just see your page as being composed of components and replace components in order to update screen.

[untog]

So, you're still controlling what is updated and when, with the same potential for making mistakes that you'd get in direct DOM manipulation.

React doesn't require you to ever manually replace a component - that's why the two are not comparable.

[netcommentator]

I am not familiar with the type of mistakes you are talking about. I have used both React and UIBuilder and find them to be comparable. Would you be willing to share an example of the type of mistake that developers frequently make?