I’d add “The DOM api probably already has everything you need and has zero dependencies.” That applies to many lower-level APIs which have gotten smarter and be

I’d add “The DOM api probably already has everything you need and has zero dependencies.” That applies to many lower-level APIs which have gotten smarter and better over the years—often in response to the needs of fancy frameworks, but now they are pretty rich by themselves. “I don’t have time to learn a new framework, I have things to do.” Everybody’s cool new abstraction is a cognitive burden for someone else.