The same could have been (and was) said for Angular. Weapon choice is part of a duel. At the same time, I worked in a couple places that used better, but less

The same could have been (and was) said for Angular. Weapon choice is part of a duel. At the same time, I worked in a couple places that used better, but less fancy languages/frameworks. I won't name them to not attract a horde of "but Erlang/Racket/Ember is the best thing". There was a repeating pattern of having a hard time with both recruitment and with actual development. People didn't know our tech, or they did but not as well as they claimed they did. Then there was all the trouble with finding libraries, examples and general help of any kind with less popular tech. I suppose the cost of using a wrong but popular tool (be it React or anything else) may actually not overweight the cost of using the right tool which in general is harder to utilize.