> React gives me the feeling that it's trying to come up with hacks to shoehorn imperative UI React IS a hack to shoehorn declarative UI into an imperative lan

> React gives me the feeling that it's trying to come up with hacks to shoehorn imperative UI React IS a hack to shoehorn declarative UI into an imperative language and DOM system. All further progress in the field is going to be a collection of hacks. ReasonML, Elm etc are clear ways forward that attempt to start from a clean slate, but you're trying to do declarative UI on JS+DOM, everything is going to be a hack. React is just the nicest currently available hack.