Funnily, I find one reason React gets adopted is that it looks the most like traditional desktop application UI programming, which is a benefit to large compani

Funnily, I find one reason React gets adopted is that it looks the most like traditional desktop application UI programming, which is a benefit to large companies with workforces full of people who have written such apps in the past. It's only after you've already committed that you find out it doesn't get you out of needing to understand HTML and state persistence.