If they had used any other library there would have been a comment like this telling them they're doing it wrong. Same thing any time WordPress does anything n

If they had used any other library there would have been a comment like this telling them they're doing it wrong. Same thing any time WordPress does anything notable. Teams make tech decisions based on multiple factors. Sometimes the ones like "bizarrely deep object tree that is impossible to reason about" are found to be less important. Because at the end of the day websites are for the wider public audience, who aren't affected by bike shedding