> but I can't deny the wonderful downstream effect of their open source.
ReactJS has been a very mixed-bag...
> ReactJS has been a very mixed-bag...
This is a very confused statement to be made, specially after the last decade where React established itself as the de facto way of writing any and every SPA.
Is it yet another example of "there are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."
React is more of a plague than a wonderful downstream effect or mixed bag. It’s essentially cemented Js as the way to build a website even if you don’t need the complexity. It is the leader in brain dead Js evangelism.