Let's ignore the fact that JS frameworks is the suck incarnated. This is deeper than that: MS using tools like this, instead of supporting (like linux on Azure

Let's ignore the fact that JS frameworks is the suck incarnated. This is deeper than that: MS using tools like this, instead of supporting (like linux on Azure), is selling the message "Our tools are not that good". This lack of confidence is telling, and I think, part of the Balkanization of all myriads of UI kits on windows. MS, Apple, nix are not just APIs: Them are the biggest UI kits vendors! So, when I use Apple, I also "buying" the UIs and UIs toolsets. Apple is the only that stay firm with the idea that their UI is first, and MUST be best (misteps, yes, but still...). MS in the past was like that. It show with VB and the unified UI kits (or at least, more unified). Their APIs were balkanized, but the UX experience was one.