> performance that is often not noticeable or is easily achieved with React's memoization features. React was always about enabling front-end engineers to take

> performance that is often not noticeable or is easily achieved with React's memoization features. React was always about enabling front-end engineers to take advantage of software engineering best practices so they could level up velocity and quality I've been working daily with React for almost 6 years now. Another 10+ years of web development before that. And I have yet to see these benefits be realized. It's not easy, at all, to "optimize performance using memoization" in React, best practices are mostly tied to JSX/React and its tooling, not general software engineering, and they change yearly based on the latest version and current third-party library trends. Velocity and quality are both hurt. Your best bet is to use an all-in-one framework like next.js, which delegates most of the pain to the authors - but not all of it. The big improvements that React brought to the mainstream were componentization, and popularizing declarative rendering. I think we have better options today. Svelte does not limit expressiveness in my experience, in fact it makes it way easier to do what you actually want to do, without contorting yourself to the framework. It's liberating. This is a viewpoint I hear frequently though, so it definitely depends on your personal path as a developer and what you've been exposed to.