alt Hacker News> most companies were indeed using it wrong
If everyone is using react wrong, react has a design flaw. Other frameworks aren't slow by default.
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> If everyone is using react wrong, react has a design flaw.
You're asserting that everyone is using it wrong. It's your personal opinion, and a baseless one at that which is based on a personal belief that everyone around you is incompetent and incapable of critical reasoning. It's silly posturing.
In the meantime, React is by far the most popular web framework in production. Some surveys list React with a market share of between 60-75% of all web frontend projects. It's so popular that it even leaked into GUI programming with native GUI toolkits.
It's rather obvious that assertions such as yours are detached from reality. Naturally the dominant framework will also dominate the number of newbies taking their first steps as well as drive-bys. It's also natural that the dominant framework will be targeted by the "aktually" crowd, invested in contrarian self-promotioj comments instead of doing anything constructive.
But to assume everyone is incapable of using something... That takes a lot of self delusion.
React is very similar to PHP in this regard. PHP has (had?) several major design flaws, and yet it became the default for people with less experience.
I don't think that React is as problematic as PHP ever was, and also frameworks like Laravel have improved the PHP experience tremendously, so there is now a way for less experienced people to use it.
IMO: the problem here is pretending that everyone has an innate right to use React right when it's clearly a library that works better when people have a bit more experience than the average web dev.
We as an industry tell people "don't do your own crypto, it's hard to get it right". We don't blame crypto for being hard, or demand new frameworks. Same for things like assembly, C++, Rust, formal proofs, writing an OS, operating BGP infrastructure, etc.
But with React it has to be "kid gloves on", otherwise it's shit?
This is perhaps a bigger problem in our industry: lack of experience is not seem as an individual problem, and we blame-shift, blame marketing, blame Facebook, Dan Abramov, trends...
Perhaps we should be saying "React is not for beginners", same as "don't do crypto".