jQuery/stock JS works just fine for literally every possible use case. The main benefit of React, if you're an engineering manager somewhere, is to bloat your

jQuery/stock JS works just fine for literally every possible use case. The main benefit of React, if you're an engineering manager somewhere, is to bloat your staff, bloat your toolchain, bloat your builds, and as a consequence, bloat your budget. And when the enormous dependency tree download+parse+JIT, runtime scaffolding, all the ridiculous virtual dom diffing and other completely unnecessary garbage slows down the user experience to near-unusability, you can hire some "performance engineers" to consolidate your fiefdom even more. I will admit that if your status is proportional to your headcount, React is an absolute gamechanger for your career.