I think the telling part is that so many people believed it without questioning. Like there's the oft-debunked "factoid" that says that the Windows Start Menu

I think the telling part is that so many people believed it without questioning. Like there's the oft-debunked "factoid" that says that the Windows Start Menu is written in react native... While the fact itself may be false, the fact that so many people readily believed it says a lot about the start menu. If someone were to make a similar claim about something like HN was built in react then almost everyone here would instantly fact check.