I mean you put it a bit harshly but I'm with you. Last year I delivered an app in vanilla JS (super tight deadline and couldn't figure out how the google maps /

I mean you put it a bit harshly but I'm with you. Last year I delivered an app in vanilla JS (super tight deadline and couldn't figure out how the google maps / react integration worked). It was fine. I rolled my own reactive data structure in a few lines of code (seriously, it can be less than 10) and got to work. Really enjoyable experience. Felt so much closer to the browser and didn't feel like I was suffering a big loss in expressiveness. I've been doing some more vanilla JS recently in my off time. The only thing that really makes me wish for a library is IndexedDB - by the time I took JS seriously it already had promises, and this oldschool callback heavy 'onerror' style is a challenge.