The article mentions interactives. The NY Times does do a lot of those (visualizations, tables, maps, etc.). > The New York Times has published millions of art

The article mentions interactives. The NY Times does do a lot of those (visualizations, tables, maps, etc.). > The New York Times has published millions of articles with hundreds of different components and tens of thousands of custom embedded interactives. Of course we wanted to fix all of our hydration mismatches, but how could we do so safely? I don't think that alone is a good reason to use React everywhere, but it's probably easier to just hire for that one stack than to try to maintain a vanilla JS stack and shim React into just the visualizations. IMO React generally makes life easier for developers (at the cost of bundle bloat for end-users). The Times probably found it an acceptable tradeoff. Their website seems pretty fast to me, FWIW, even throttled down to 3G.