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by epolanski 190 days ago
There's no need to take down and diminish other's contributions, especially in open source where everybody's free to bring a better solution to the table.

Or just fork if the maintainers want to go their way. If your solution has its merits it will find its fans.

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That's utopia.

While everyone is free to fork and maintain React. It's by no means an easy task, specially if it's not their job like Dan's is.

Plus, industry tends to gravitate towards what is popular. Network effects an all. So if a massively popular tool is subpar, the complications of it aren't without impact.

And no one is immune to criticism. LLMs are criticised for their sycophancy but some humans are no different when it comes to gatekeeping criticism.