[daliwali]

This is by the way, a thinly veiled insult. Citing Dunning-Kruger effect is just a way to call someone an idiot who thinks they are competent.

Nobody looks at objective benchmarks. My own DOM utility is faster than React.js, and in fact it is not such a difficult feat, there are a few DOM utilities which are faster, also authored by relative nobodies.

I don't worry about catering to IE8 users, neither do most websites, and that number is vanishingly small. I'm also not interested in competing on complexity, which is what happens when one preemptively builds for edge cases.

I will probably never work on a web app that has a wider reach than Facebook. Setting up arbitrary personal goals for success like working on "one of the busiest social sites in the world" and even achieving that won't make me any happier. How much is enough? I've already proven that I beat Facebook at the DOM performance game, and still I'm the Dunning-Kruger idiot.