Vue might be easier to "learn" under some metrics, but there's no way it's easier to actually understand. Look at the amount of hidden build-time logic in each

Vue might be easier to "learn" under some metrics, but there's no way it's easier to actually understand. Look at the amount of hidden build-time logic in each system. Vue has it's own entire stringly typed DSL, React has one fairly trivial transform that's easily doable in your head, and is totally optional. which still matters, even though nobody chooses to go that route, because in theory it allows beginners to learn the JSX abstraction seperately, and helps smooth out the learning curve. Unfortunately nobody actually seems to learn this way because there's so much emphasis on getting devs up to speed and working on production systems as quick as possible, at the expense of actually imparting them with any wisdom or knowledge. The React team are the worst at this (although Vue is a very close second), there's no good reason that I need to go to Dan Abramov's twitter and blog to find out how the library I'm using works. It should be in the official docs. Otherwise you're just training devs to code through rote memorisation of patterns instead of any actual knowledge or understanding.