Yeah I agree with you and I have been around for a while. I do feel that there is a lot of elitism from those who hate React. The same as you get in any industr

Yeah I agree with you and I have been around for a while. I do feel that there is a lot of elitism from those who hate React. The same as you get in any industry. When I was doing audio engineering professionally you would find a bunch of engineers who had the same sort of mentality about outboard equipment. Specifically modern outboard which uses switching power supplies and the like in order to reduce power consumption and, ultimately, the cost of the gear. You can’t help but feel a lot of people feel threatened by advances in technology as their ability to gatekeep diminishes with every iteration. In the audio example you’d no longer have to spend thousands of pounds on a Neve preamp to get a professional sound. You can buy a focusrite interface for a couple hundred and have decent sounding recordings. Likewise with React/Vercel/NextJS. With those advancements a person (I don’t say dev as the docs make it so most people can fumble their way around) can deploy a simple website in a week or less depending on their personal ability to learn. As such those who made a living overcharging to make a simple site for a local business are seeing their income diminish. Just my theory, anyway.