I wasn't saying it was good because it was popular, not making an argument from popularity, since I also think most people are stupid. I was saying that's the

I wasn't saying it was good because it was popular, not making an argument from popularity, since I also think most people are stupid. I was saying that's the right trade-off to choose in a lot of common use cases. Because most UI toolkits are pretty limiting, and the web toolkit can be amazingly powerful and productive. Of course, if you follow the latest fads in the awful js community they are a nightmare, but lets not pretend that's the only way to use the platform when it makes sense to pay the efficiency cost.