I wouldn't call it a win. Web UIs plateaued about 10-15 years ago. It was never the state of the art in what is possible with user interfaces; it always was a h

I wouldn't call it a win. Web UIs plateaued about 10-15 years ago. It was never the state of the art in what is possible with user interfaces; it always was a huge compromise between having something that feels vaguely responsive shoehorned into a platform (browsers) not really designed for being a platform for implementing UIs. Mediocrity is the norm on the web. And react is just the gold standard for shoveling that shit out. It's not good, or great, or nice, etc. It's just that the rest is just more of the same level of mediocrity. My feeling is that the core issues were never really addressed. Javascript was utter shit 25 years ago and it still is. CSS was an inflexible complex mess. And it still is. And the browser's DOM tree was more or less an accident that resulted from a brief industry wide obsession with things like XML. Hacking UI frameworks on top of that is basically what most frameworks do. But it's just not a very good basis for any of that. Design by committee stuff. All of it. The worst is that there's a lot of good UI out there on other platforms. The web was awkward and painful 25 years ago and it has gotten a bit better but actually not a whole lot. There's nothing pretty about it. Or state of the art (not even close). It's just a lot of mediocrity and a culture of people confusing this mediocrity with "apparently this is how it's done" and not even questioning it anymore. It was easier to do some things with Flash twenty years ago than it is with web technologies today. People have stopped bothering to attempt to even do a lot of these things. Just not worth the pain. And mediocre is good enough. Slap a drop shadow on it and call it a day. Maybe a cheesy css transition here and there. I love brutalist websites like HN calling bullshit on this crap. Dang and his friends don't even attempt to dress it up. It's orange! Forever! Enjoy. It looked dated ten years ago, the same it does now. But it's also a major news website running circles around most of its competition. At best they might weak 1 CSS color around Christmas or so from orange to red. That's about the extent of "web design" that happens on this website. It doesn't need it. It would be just window dressing.