[rantanplan]

I had invested time in Angular. I don't think it was wasted time. If nothing else, it made me hate the JS world about 1% less.

For every well maintained JS "technology" there are 100 others that aren't and they occupy the same playground. Evaluating them takes more time than one might think and at the end of the day, what you choose carries a huge risk. Yes this also happens in other aspects/technologies, but with JS stuff the risk is almost always higher.

A word about monolithic systems; You give too much credit on what a JS framework does. It's just one job. Do you ascribe the same term to GTK or Qt for example?

To be honest, React seems decent. I don't necessarily disagree with you, you just touched... a nerve of mine :)

If I ever have to evaluate JS frameworks again, React will have its turn then.

Cheers