This. Vast majority of the companies out there are NOT software companies. Meaning, they don’t have full time developers, at least none with decent experience,

This. Vast majority of the companies out there are NOT software companies. Meaning, they don’t have full time developers, at least none with decent experience, on a full time payroll. Their internal tools/portals/sites are either maintained by contractors every now and then or junior developers/interns. In these cases, popularity of a technology, documentation, ease of hire, being able to hit the ground running etc are far important than a slightly smaller bundle size and a few extra ms response time. It’s a difference between being able to hire someone easily and not i.e being able to develop features vs months of delays and cost in order to hire a senior “efficient” dev for one of the lesser known platforms. Choice of tech stack falls somewhere middle or bottom of the list of things to consider when delivering a solution/product. Good enough is good enough. Other factors are far more dominant after a certain point.