[terandle]

Yes but in 6 months react will release a compiler to catch it up by a lot. Performance has diminishing returns and at some point, things just need to be fast enough (see vscode) and the industry will continue on as the switching cost is way too high.

[xcrunner529]

True. But if the sites performed well (big if) and feel responsive, look nice, don’t break middle click and other browser functions - well I don’t see the problem, then. I don’t think the “hate” is irrational.

[terandle]

Which is why I think react (and other SPA frameworks) are now pointing beginners to full stack frameworks like nextjs, remix etc where those best practices are baked in. It took the JS frameworks a bit to find their path there but I think they are there now.