I like reading these articles. Yet so often I have these thoughts that (feel free to replace react with anything): - Yeah why was that in react anyway? - Is

I like reading these articles. Yet so often I have these thoughts that (feel free to replace react with anything): - Yeah why was that in react anyway? - Is the fact that the project grew into a mess a react thing or just typical project is developed over time and turns into a mess because humans. - Are these problems "react" problems or ... choices? - Is the new system better fundamentally, or better because everything got re-written after the fact / all the lessons learned were applied to it from the start? Sometimes there are answers in the articles, sometimes not.