Yup. That's the point. The average frontend app really sucks. Error handling is poor, routing is bad, offline support is non-existent, it's buggy as hell, slow,

Yup. That's the point. The average frontend app really sucks. Error handling is poor, routing is bad, offline support is non-existent, it's buggy as hell, slow, etc. Now, not all apps need all of those things to be good, but they usually need some combination of those things. When you start making things "good", they're hard. Peanut Gallery Joe who learnt Rail and JavaScript over the summer jumping in this is not equipped to make a good app, and gets overwhelmed. Compared to writing "robust" applications in other ecosystems, the React world is really not that bad.