[Chris_Newton]

This discussion is frustrating and I feel perhaps we should agree to disagree at this point. It seems we keep talking past each other and I don’t know how else to explain my position. It also seems that perhaps you have some more specific ideas in your head about what some of these terms mean and you are seeing what I’m writing through that lens, but unless you explain those ideas the rest of us can’t productively discuss them with you.

I addressed three specific claims you made in the comment I first replied to. The first was true as written and my point in that case was that it doesn’t tell the whole story about how React relates to your own application code. I have tried to be diplomatic, but the second and third were simply incorrect: you claimed that React permeates your code and makes migration between rendering libraries difficult, and that it enforces a specific architectural style to the exclusion of others, but as I have tried to explain, my own experience on multiple occasions has proven otherwise. These things are only true if you use React in a certain way, and my greater point throughout this discussion has been that you are not required to use React in that way and a different approach may be beneficial in some respects. I feel like the old saying applies here: perhaps someone who says a thing cannot be done should not interrupt someone who is doing it.