That stuff isn't readable. It's mostly garbage. Arguments like this do you no favors. There are hundreds of thousands of developers using React today. They are

That stuff isn't readable. It's mostly garbage. Arguments like this do you no favors. There are hundreds of thousands of developers using React today. They aren't all wrong. There are legitimate reasons to use it, it works very well, and code written with it is not 'garbage'. It certainly has its flaws too of course. However, while any website that's using React appropriately could be written in vanilla JS instead, after a while the code would start to look like a poor quality React implementation. This is obvious, because what React is doing - abstracting the process of inter-component communication, and giving developers tools to solve common problems within components - is actually very common in app development. Leveraging React rather than reinventing that particular wheel is a good idea.