You can say this about most things in the standard library. But as stated in the motivation, there's an ongoing trend to extend the rather small standard librar

You can say this about most things in the standard library. But as stated in the motivation, there's an ongoing trend to extend the rather small standard library js offers, so you don't need to have a package for each and every common task. You can argue about the need for this, but if we're going to extend the standard lib, then looking at what is popular is a good approach IMO. > Before these libraries used signals, they or their predecessors used virtual DOM Signals are not a replacement for virtual DOM.