The internet is still slow and expensive for huge swathes of the world. React is still not a better option for them. The truth is that React was very good and

The internet is still slow and expensive for huge swathes of the world. React is still not a better option for them. The truth is that React was very good and probably would have remained pretty good to great even today if the original form had been iterated upon. What we’re seeing today is nothing like the original react and should have been a completely different library in the first place. I suspect if this completely library had been created without the advantage of piggy backing off the original highly successful React library’s fame, it would have made little to no headway on its own strength. Heck, I’d be open to an argument that what we’re seeing today, a DSL that’s focused on making NextJS work, could even be considered a 3rd or 4th different library under the React moniker, after original React, hooks based React (even here the goal and meaning of hooks changed midway) and then the current NextJS DSL.