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> There's absolutely nothing stopping you from making a VanillaJS website or JQuery or whatever.

There’s nothing stopping me doing that on a solo project but frontend web dev is increasingly a monoculture around React so when you’re talking about making this decision in the workplace you end up using React whether it’s the right idea or not.

I worked at a place that ended up using React because a senior manager was concerned about hiring and wanted to use something we’d be able to easily hire for. It wasn’t actually a good tech fit but that wasn’t the priority. And in many ways he wasn’t wrong. There’s a mini-generation of developers that have only experienced front end development though the lens of React and have barely if ever used, say, raw CSS.