You're completely right. Every React update solves a very specific Facebook issue but it's because React is developed by Facebook for Facebook. React was and

You're completely right. Every React update solves a very specific Facebook issue but it's because React is developed by Facebook for Facebook. React was and is developed to solve Facebook problems, not community problems. Unfortunately there is a lot of hype about corporate backed libraries and they get adopted by the community because the hype, not because they solve community's problems. It does not mean these libraries are bad, quite contrary, the majority of them are very good engineered solutions, but at the end of the day, they solve corporate problems, not community problems.