Nowadays it's common for developers to learn React before they even learn JavaScript, and that's not great but it's not the cause of the problem.
It's the companies that pile on to a stack because it's "easy to hire for". If everyone optimizes for hiring we end up with a local maximum, React. We can't do better because no one else is doing better.
It's the companies that pile on to a stack because it's "easy to hire for". If everyone optimizes for hiring we end up with a local maximum, React. We can't do better because no one else is doing better.