> they're so easily impressed by what it can do Are they, though? I haven't worked with React, but I have had the misfortune of working with Angular and I was

> they're so easily impressed by what it can do Are they, though? I haven't worked with React, but I have had the misfortune of working with Angular and I was immediately struck by how useless the whole thing was - it was pure overhead, and didn't seem to actually "do" anything at all. At least with jQuery there were some cute accordion and slideshow plugins - Angular just made things slower and bigger. I asked the front-end guy who was pushing Angular so hard why we didn't just scrap the thing entirely and, after a bit of incredulous back and forth, got sort of a condescending "you'll understand how helpful it is once you've spent some more time working with it". Nope, just give me HTML/CSS/Javascript. I'm a programmer. I can program the rest.