My hot take is that React doesn't directly _cause_ slow performance, but that React is so well marketed as a first place to start for new programmers that the b

My hot take is that React doesn't directly _cause_ slow performance, but that React is so well marketed as a first place to start for new programmers that the bar for quality is much lower than other industries (like game programming, or even "vanilla JS" which is increasingly seen as an advanced approach).