This is probably a popular opinion on HN, but I actually agree. I’ve made things with PHP back when PHP was cool, and then when it wasn’t. I’ve build things wit

This is probably a popular opinion on HN, but I actually agree. I’ve made things with PHP back when PHP was cool, and then when it wasn’t. I’ve build things with ASP classic, I’ve made my own ASP extensions, then moved to webforms then to mvc and now to core. I’ve made things with JSP and still have nightmares about beans. On top of all that I’ve used the JavaScript necessary to make it actual functional. It’s true that you can create a MVVM app feeling with a MVC framework and a little Ajax, but really, I’ve never been more productive than I have with react. I don’t think it’s really that much more complicated, but I do think 99% of the learning resources are outright terrible, and that was certainly a hurdle I had to overcome. Which is hard, because learning new things while you have a full time job is already hard.