I would take criticisms of the React model a lot more seriously if those criticisms actually critized, y'know, the React model, and weren't just picking on a bunch of badly designed libraries that happen to be built on top of it, or complaining about websites that happen to use it.
The same applies to supposedly 'better alternatives' for React. I'll take those seriously once they demonstrate an actual understanding of the problem space that React tries to inhabit - because very often they are 'better' by simply jettisoning some of the design goals that inform React's design, and so they can't actually replace it.
(Inspired by, but not a subtoot of, another toot about React)
@joepie91 main thing I hate about react is that the end product is fucking impossible to interrogate as an end user
And I should note that I am saying this with an acute awareness of React having problems of its own, and being unamused by its internal complexity, and not *really* liking it.
But I've also learned not to trust promises of solutions that don't come with a clear understanding of the problem domain attached, because it usually means that someone is trying to sell you something, for money or otherwise.