Something that continues to amaze and frustrate me in equal parts, is that many of the "web has gotten overly and irresponsibly complex" criticisms are aimed primarily at React...
... even though it's probably the only 'modern' development stack whose design actually plausibly lets you opt out of its broader ecosystem and is designed somewhat standard-ly, unlike the 'competitors' like Angular, Vue, etc., which are rarely mentioned in this context
Like, to be clear, React does have its own problems, but also this sort of thing makes me wonder how many of those criticisms are well-informed, vs. how many are just based on imprecise anecdata
And like, the core complaint of excessive complexity on the web and all the accessibility/performance that originate from that, is *valid* -- but you do actually need to understand the cause correctly to fix it
@wakingrufus Yep. I wouldn't quite consider it the *root* cause (that's capitalism -> hype -> the "everything must be an app" nonsense), but it does correctly identify a point where it becomes a *technical* problem
@joepie91
Yeah I don't think the problem is specific to react. It is overuse of the "webapp" idea. Not every website needs to be an app. Especially a newspaper article.