[dosy]

Thanks for reminding people, really. But I guess I don't get the sympathy for abusive comments against my work unless I'm part of some mainstream group. Which just proves that it's not the so-called morality of commenters is not really based on morality but just confirmation bias / groupthink and preserving those group mass delusions. Anyway, I appreciate you reiterating this earlier point I made.

I think it's interesting how important "group identity" is here. If I attack a group of people "React faddites" as I did here, everyone loses their minds. But if someone attacks my work, everyone's cool with it. People are more keen to defend the group than the individual. Interesting. It's not really about morality, but everyone wants to clothe it in that...I wonder why the group identity is so important? I tend to think it's compensation for / a substitute for actual merit. We know React is not great, so we have to double down on the community of idiots parroting the official line that it is great.

It's funny to me. I can have my opinion about the tools I wanna work with. But if they don't coincide with the mainstream tools, clearly I am "wrong" and just "don't understand". But if I criticise the mainstream tool users as being the ones who don't understand, again, I'm "wrong" and "don't understand". That sort of echo-chamber, self-protective / non-introspective fear of criticism and double standards is not a great thing, and probably another reason why React is so weak. If it was really strong, it could be robust against robust criticism? But it doesn't show a lot of confidence for a massive group of self-confessed React acolytes to go bats when someone dares question them. It shows someone has stepped on a point they know fear might be true. I mean, for a whole group of people who devote so much energy to use this thing, I understand why they'd be angry if it was true and someone pointed it out, but it's funny to me how the group can be insecure about its choice, and have chosen badly, even when so many people have thought about it and are invested in it. Madness of crowds, I guess. Popularity is no guarantee of quality.