> I've never even thought about the social aspect of being a react dev - is there one? I've dipped my toes professionally in all the popular frameworks and onl

> I've never even thought about the social aspect of being a react dev - is there one? I've dipped my toes professionally in all the popular frameworks and only in React are people this hyped for every little thing. Case in point: there was a demo on Twitter - of some new feature which I don't recall - that showed how React "renders 3000 components in real time" - components being 3D polygons. Many comments praising the performance. Then an outsider asked "is 3000 polygons really that much?" And he had a point. > Never had a problem with them being "simple on the surface" but ymmv I guess. Yes, you specifically. But if you look at your typical junior to mid developer, you'll see them get into hard to debug performance issues bery quickly. It's the same issue as with RxJS in Angular - many praise it, but most understand it only just enough to get by, making a lot of mistakes along the way. I think the phrase for this is "footgun".