[incrudible]

If the html+css+js trifecta was any good for creating UI beyond simple forms, we would not have witnessed the cambrian explosion of ways to do it differently. Reactivity itself was an answer to the pain of using MVC and similar approaches in older GUI toolkits not made for the web. The pain did not stop entirely, of course, because GUI is a complicated and ill defined problem - but I don’t look back fondly to programming without it.

[usrbinenv]

React got popular not because of its amazing time-tested ideas (everyone knows they re-engineer everything once every couple years!), but, strictly speaking, because at the time it was released there wasn't any kind of serious SPA or partially-SPA framework for the web and also because JavaScript sucked a lot more at the time (no classes!). Qite is perfectly suitable for complex UIs thanks to its state functionality, you can build pretty complex functionality and UI and not sacrifice user's CPU in the process.