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> There’s a nuanced and interesting discussion to be had here but the author chooses to demonise and insult entire communities. Does this rhetoric help anyone?

I mean, it is true that the SPA community has basically taken control of the frontend narrative. No beginner dipping their toes into webdev today can escape the gravity pull of React et al.

From the article:

> I’m angry because for the past decade of web development, I and so many others like me feel like we’ve been repeatedly gaslit, and that so many of the “merchants of complexity” refuse to acknowledge the harm that’s been done.

This I agree with. Beginners should start with generating HTML from their programming language of choice. Experts know better, but a complete beginner has no idea that this is the truth. Everywhere they're bombarded with frontend == React (or some other up and coming framework). Look at the amount of discussion generated by "Do I need to learn JavaScript before React?". This shouldn't even be a question, but you have people passionately arguing for the other side because "frameworks make your productive immediately, you can learn the basics later". The basics are HTML and CSS.