I was going to say the same but I think you said it much more clearly than I would have. I see this meme a lot. "I hate X, don't learn X, Y is better because Y is fundamental to Z".
I have not once seen these same people suggesting "Don't learn the toolkit/framework/control library for your OS, instead use raw WinAPI or X System calls and push raw pixels to build applications".
Yet, they push for the same with HTML. How you arrive at the HTML is up to you. By saying, for example, don't learn React, you might as well be saying "don't do anything productively, do everything in the least maintainable and the most convoluted and unnecessary way possible, your customers and team will like that surely".
The difference is, that JS, CSD and HTML are evolving. They now offer way more than they used to. We can do so much with HTML 5 and CSS 3 already. The argument is to not use React or similar, when a simpler way using standard conform means is available.
It is hard to take a comment serious which compares not using React to not being able to do anything productively. It looks like a very junior React-only dev comment.
Oh in theory you are correct, but in practice once people are given a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail, especially since they do not yet have the basics down well enough and it does lead to them not really learing the basics, because "it also works with React" (no matter how shitty and with how much overhead)
lloydatkinson|3 years ago
I have not once seen these same people suggesting "Don't learn the toolkit/framework/control library for your OS, instead use raw WinAPI or X System calls and push raw pixels to build applications".
Yet, they push for the same with HTML. How you arrive at the HTML is up to you. By saying, for example, don't learn React, you might as well be saying "don't do anything productively, do everything in the least maintainable and the most convoluted and unnecessary way possible, your customers and team will like that surely".
zelphirkalt|3 years ago
It is hard to take a comment serious which compares not using React to not being able to do anything productively. It looks like a very junior React-only dev comment.
zelphirkalt|3 years ago