The desire to “stay close to vanilla” is truly inexplicable. Browser JS APIs are unpleasant and irregular to say the least. The DOM is an object model that was

The desire to “stay close to vanilla” is truly inexplicable. Browser JS APIs are unpleasant and irregular to say the least. The DOM is an object model that was designed for markup documents and bluntly shoehorned to accommodate applications. The only good thing about vanilla JS is that you don’t have to learn anything. I honestly can’t help but think that people who enjoy vanilla JS/web dev are either truly gifted, ignorant, or have low aspirtions. The average person like me cannot succeed with vanilla JS. React is popular because it democratized the possibility of success.