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Having experienced react at a dayjob, it encourages a truly enormous unknowable dependency tree full of vulnerabilities, continuous churn as that tree is upgraded and many many anti-patterns like intermingling code and templates and spreading logic between front and back end. It's not simpler, it's more complex than the alternatives for the vast majority of websites in almost every way and the complexity is almost entirely incidental complexity related to the stack.

Perhaps people using it just think this is normal and required. So yes the one true modern web framework has been anointed, but it is better than what came before or just what everyone else is using?

Adding generative AI to the mix will just make it worse as the code generated will be an average of all the below average code out there and dthe group-think will be further encouraged.