React, like Redux, is/was overused/overmarketed. Are you writing a multimedia sequencer in the browser or other desktop replacement? No? You probably don't need

React, like Redux, is/was overused/overmarketed. Are you writing a multimedia sequencer in the browser or other desktop replacement? No? You probably don't need React. I'd even go so far as to say if your website could be built with Wordpress + plugins, or Shopify, you probably don't need React. But React marketing sold itself as "fidgeting with the DOM is hard and expensive, mmkay" and in a world of agile feature factory churn that sounds like somebody just struck gold. I also dislike Facebook engineering leading frontend culture into quasi-functional land in a language that is not optimized for functional programming. People take that Eich "I wanted to make a Scheme" quote too far. The eventual deprecation of using classes in React is just more indication of this direction. Just for example there will be a generation of developers who will be surprised to learn that the DOM EventTarget interface methods accept either a function or an object bearing the EventListener interface (React bars developers from passing the EventListerner interface), but that's a world of difference between generating on-demand functions for every call versus re-using a single object method for every call. At a certain level inefficiency in frontend is being green-lit by its thought leaders but that sorta has to be the case or their ideas wouldn't get past any serious approval from Product