And not just because they’re declarative. I’m currently working in an ecosystem of ~decade old JS projects. The imperative DOM stuff is of course a hassle, but

And not just because they’re declarative. I’m currently working in an ecosystem of ~decade old JS projects. The imperative DOM stuff is of course a hassle, but the data flow is (predictably) all over the place. It takes a lot more discipline to keep data flow reasonable in an imperative UI. Modern declarative frameworks are generally opinionated about data flow (sometimes that’s their only opinion!).