Hand-written code will always beat a framework; React isn't trying to be faster than domain-aware DOM manipulation. Instead, React seeks to be the state of the

Hand-written code will always beat a framework; React isn't trying to be faster than domain-aware DOM manipulation. Instead, React seeks to be the state of the art in maintainable view architecture. One of its secondary goals is non-sucky performance, which it does pretty well. Most devs aren't working on apps where React is the performance bottleneck. If you are, then, well, don't use React.