[ojkelly]

Reacts programming model appeals to people, and react is good at problems that have a predictable output like HTML.

Plus if your frontend is react, it’s much easier to keep all the html generation in one place.

[ttfkam]

A combination of the devil you know and Stockholm Syndrome.

It was better in many ways than the dominant techniques in 2013, sure, but that's not a terribly high bar, especially when observing the React model a decade later.

React served well enough for quick starts. It proved… challenging… for ongoing maintenance and quality control in long-lived projects.