Unfortunately all the early was advocacy focused on how the virtual DOM is "faster", so the people are fully excused for not finding out "what it was meant for"

Unfortunately all the early was advocacy focused on how the virtual DOM is "faster", so the people are fully excused for not finding out "what it was meant for". The "UI as a function of state" was not just sold as "more functional/simpler", but also as a necessity to have a DOM diffing algorithm to minimize updates and be "faster".