It's a combination of many things, but imo one of the worst is all the footguns regarding state and the rerenders they cause https://emnudge.dev/blog/react-hos

It's a combination of many things, but imo one of the worst is all the footguns regarding state and the rerenders they cause https://emnudge.dev/blog/react-hostage https://emnudge.dev/blog/react-hostage It's so easy, that we monkey patch react to debug it https://github.com/welldone-software/why-did-you-render https://github.com/welldone-software/why-did-you-render Plus the vdom... Isn't great, the bundle size puts react at an inherit disadvantage, and the community has a knack for over reliance on bloated packages