> No one actually really cares about it, and its not the reason why people use React. This is probably true today, especially for newcomers, but the article is

> No one actually really cares about it, and its not the reason why people use React. This is probably true today, especially for newcomers, but the article is from 2018 and the context of the time period is significant here, I think. Having used React since around 2015, there definitely was an aire of "React is fast because of the Virtual DOM!" and it was one of its big selling points early on. I can remember reading this article and nodding along, but reading it now evokes more of a sense of "I remember when VDOM mattered". I think around that time was maybe the tail end of VDOM being a big selling point, and this article might've even precipitated that, to a degree. As React's usage has grown, I think the significance of VDOM as a feature has fallen by the wayside in favor of things like "everyone uses React so we use React too." The competition between frameworks at the moment seems less about performance and more about their approaches and tradeoffs.