First he dismisses React, then he says his code is looking a lot like React without the ceremony, then he shows code samples that look a lot like React except t

First he dismisses React, then he says his code is looking a lot like React without the ceremony, then he shows code samples that look a lot like React except they use string concatenation (hello XSS) to build the DOM (goodbye DOM diffing) and instead of following the modern React idea of small composable components they are huge and bloated. Is this satire?