It's just a fairly lengthy fall into a trap that many, many programmers fall into: detaching their craft from the business purpose it serves. A webpage renderi

It's just a fairly lengthy fall into a trap that many, many programmers fall into: detaching their craft from the business purpose it serves. A webpage rendering Xms faster has negative value if it e.g. took 3 months longer to hire the programmer responsible for writing it, or if that programmer costs $100,000/yr more, or if training them to proficiency took 6 months, etc etc. The advantages of well-known frameworks are very real to the business, they just offend some programmers' sensibilities which should be simply ignored. In any case, the IBM analog is also weird/wrong. The takeaway from IBM has to do with bureaucratic decision-making and especially the principal-agent conflict between people who buy systems like IBM and people who have to use them. I have never seen a similar dynamic be responsible for the decision to use React. There is no React salesperson wining and dining the C-suite.