[distopico]

I worked with React.js for more than 5 years in a big projects and I finally burnout of it, I agree with all you said, React added a extremely complexity for simple thing, added a lot of side affects that sometimes are hard to debug and fix, fix re-render will be your daily work more that create features and in the end you get a slow application in mobile devices due the size/re-render etc.

In the end I decided to re-evaluate was I was doing, I want make the web better but with React.js I was doing worst the web

[Existenceblinks]

From engineering perspective react-dom is being 130kB (.min) while the other is 6-8kB AND faster in benchmark, yet the industry decided this is acceptable, I know that our engineering principle is rotten.

[CharlieDigital]

Indeed. This is something the the staunch React folks are missing: with vanilla, I can cut out a LOT of excessive payload.