[Rohansi]

> The same complaints can be made by the second developer because the first developer chose the "wrong" framework.

Exactly this. There's so much fragmentation within the browser ecosystem that there is no guarantee your second developer will be comfortable/familiar with what the first developer chose. Even if you went with React you could be using state management they don't understand, a styling system they don't understand, etc... Even if you choose the most popular everything at the start of the project there is a lot of churn where things eventually fall out of favour.

I'd also be skeptical of web developers who work with React but aren't familiar with vanilla JavaScript. It's probably a good indicator that they aren't the best candidate but we can't all be picky.