> Go play around with Angular 1, or BackboneJS, or try building a working SPA with jQuery I have used these in production (and mootools, prototype, and many mo

> Go play around with Angular 1, or BackboneJS, or try building a working SPA with jQuery I have used these in production (and mootools, prototype, and many more) and when these came out they were novel / a breakthrough as well at the time. My point being is React is no longer a simple transform from state -> UI. Since fibers and concurrent rendering and suspense and server components and hooks and actions it is a much wider framework than you are remembering from 2012.