My personal opinion on React is that it may be overkill on simpler projects, but there are mitigations (like SSR) that make it easier to swallow, and in this ca

My personal opinion on React is that it may be overkill on simpler projects, but there are mitigations (like SSR) that make it easier to swallow, and in this case it is fine (as it allowed faster prototyping and building). The real problem is that major websites have used frameworks for relatively static pages (news sites are bad at this) but didn't think of the possible side effects (like slower client-side rendering and subjectively "sluggish" website.)