I choose React for personal projects because it's easy. I'm not too concerned with performance. This article doesnt spend much time on developer experience.
And to me this is the root of the problem. Developer experience is awesome so fuck the users, the usability, the performance, the scalability of the business, the time it take to build anything, the stability, the security, the robustness, and whoever will come in 2 years after we left to maintain this. I'll be gone by then.
But lots of the developer experience is actually awful. Some is good, but there's so much needless complexity that is just painful. Stockholm syndrome applies if you don't realise there's easier ways, of course.
Well there's also what might be called the "eschatological perspective on technology": time in development is spent only once, but user life time and technical resources are spent million times (at least, if it's a significant project). In this context, we may also speak of the "eschatological debt" of a project.
Sounds like a plan. Developer experience rules!