The ease of working with a react version from 2015 vs jquery? jQuery is very easy to understand and edit in notepad. It doesn't require getting the right npm

The ease of working with a react version from 2015 vs jquery? jQuery is very easy to understand and edit in notepad. It doesn't require getting the right npm version / maintaining dependencies of specific package versions that may be depreciated. Routing is better handled in the backend. Backend frameworks have been around longer. By treating them as an api only you end up reinventing the wheel. Caching, state management, reactivity have been handled in the backend for awhile.