> React and Tailwind violate the previous principles of unobstructive JS and semantic naming that were the prevailing practices not too long ago. My cynical tak

> React and Tailwind violate the previous principles of unobstructive JS and semantic naming that were the prevailing practices not too long ago. My cynical take is a lot of that is driven by consultants looking to stand out as thought leaders. You're missing that people are adopting this on their own because they enjoy the benefits during development. This is also my explanation for why apps with the same complexity as 15 years ago are now slower: What Andy Giveth, Bill taketh away. Developers (or rather their management) are choosing to make "lazy" trade-offs, i.e. prioritizing programmer productivity over execution performance. Which makes economical sense. I wish there was a way to shift the economic incentives because that would change things very quickly. Maybe some browser performance limits.