In fairness at the local level displayed here just vanilla JS is damn easy to implement. But when you have a larger app with various interactions that can happ

In fairness at the local level displayed here just vanilla JS is damn easy to implement. But when you have a larger app with various interactions that can happen at different levels of the tree, the react abstraction will be appreciated. I say this as someone who was around to see how we dealt with this in backbone and then switched to react for dealing with the same