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by dosy 2444 days ago
All the critical comments on this. Why are all these critics so scared that there might be an easier way to do web dev?

Are they really just protecting their archane methods because they see that as protecting their income and any simplification a threat to that?

Or is it more tribal, cult like adherence to an overbloated way of creating web UIs?

Or is it people don't want to learn yet another tool and they're just resigned to the fact the these are the tools they have because really, they don't get to decide that anyway, their employer does?

Or is it people don't like being reminded that actually, they're "forced" to use these tools (which they perhaps wouldn't if it wasn't mandated), but because the workplace uses them, they use them, so the existence of other options while accurate is a painful reminder of their own limited autonomy to individually decide the tools they use for their work?

Is the same cultish zealotry seen in other languages and frameworks or is it just (what compiles to) ECMAscript and Web UI/state frameworks?