[simonw]

Alex's position is that the average consumer is on a cheap Android phone, which has severe CPU weaknesses compared to any iPhone from the last ~five years: https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-...

Software engineers tend not to experience the web on the same class of device as most of their users.

[ecosystem]

But is the average Target shopper on a cheap Android phone accessing over non-broadband? Wayfair?

It's a fair point to note devs and users might have different devices, but in some cases they don't and the decision to use React might be well-founded with that fact.