> The design is a part of that but it's also influenced by what you can do differently than a pure HTML + a bit of jquery site. > I can pack a ton of informati

> The design is a part of that but it's also influenced by what you can do differently than a pure HTML + a bit of jquery site. > I can pack a ton of information into smaller flexible places and integrate action-relevant help boxes and only showing the parts of forms as needed. > This site could massively improve with real time filtering, multi-select forms, interactive data exports tools, multi-team/page comparisons, information highlights on hover, inline math tools, etc. I guarantee that it is possible to write any of these features in traditional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without relying on today's frameworks or build infrastructure. I know this because even the most advanced build pipeline in the world must eventually compile down to traditional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; that's all browsers run, no matter how many layers you add to try to abstract yourself away from it. I also know this because websites existed that had these features prior to React becoming popular. > We've been dealing with slow clunky JS components forever now That's the thing -- there was a time before slow, clunky JS components. (They used to be slow, clunky Flash components :P)