I feel you :-) I could very well be that interviewer, reaching for a framework to do something that can be easily done in vanilla JS, but feeling that the frame

I feel you :-) I could very well be that interviewer, reaching for a framework to do something that can be easily done in vanilla JS, but feeling that the framework will make it even simpler. (E.g. after using a framework that will handle syncing my state with my UI I find that I don't want to do the same with plain JS). But I've had my share of arguments that made me appreciate the opposite viewpoint as well.