To be fair, React's work is the most likely implementation of this concept for people to have heard about before. They've been talking about it for years, after

To be fair, React's work is the most likely implementation of this concept for people to have heard about before. They've been talking about it for years, after all :) You're either vastly underestimating the number of developers at that skill level, or overestimating the number of those devs you or I might ever have even heard of.