It's not just react, there is a lot of bloat included in modern interfaces, things like telemetry, metrics, error reporting, heatmaps, etc. React was inspired b

It's not just react, there is a lot of bloat included in modern interfaces, things like telemetry, metrics, error reporting, heatmaps, etc. React was inspired by PHP rendering exactly because it is a much simpler model then the usual two way data binding models.