The problem is this article is making general statements off of their specific use case. Like this complaint: > Simple things were made harder to develop. Reac

The problem is this article is making general statements off of their specific use case. Like this complaint: > Simple things were made harder to develop. React was created to make DOM changes fast, really fast, so you will have to use React functions to make use of this, some of which you will not be familiar with (because React has a different architectural style) It's utterly meaningless. What it really sounds like is they didn't understand React, didn't research what using React with jQuery would entail (given by the fact that they couldn't make it work), and didn't bother to learn the (relatively small) React API. React is not hard. Then this gem: > React is great, but only if you want to develop a simple application where the UI should not be consistent across different technologies Is _completely_ incorrect.. React is used at enterprise scale by many companies to develop all sorts of complex apps, and surely many of them have or had existing systems coexisting side-by-side.