It seems that as usual, there are just two groups: people who for some reason didn't like React and its way of things, but now found something else they do like

It seems that as usual, there are just two groups: people who for some reason didn't like React and its way of things, but now found something else they do like (which is good!), but now still have the need to shit on React; the second group likes React and never had serious problems using it. I don't understand what is so complicated about hooks. It's a good abstraction with specific trade-off s. I think people forget that when React came out, it was awesome. Declarative, fast, and composable. I immediately wrote my own VDOM-based library ([1]), faster than React (probably with a lot more bugs, but my apps didn't have the same requirements as Facebook) - that's how inspiring React was. So many UI libraries :D Also it's funny that some people think that it's just a big cartel that will force developers to use React forever, and others think it's inevitable that something better will come up. [1] https://github.com/datanautika/ash https://github.com/datanautika/ash