Ah yes, BUT you can't deny that one of the major selling points of React after its announcement was its superior performance due to its DOM magic. May be one se

Ah yes, BUT you can't deny that one of the major selling points of React after its announcement was its superior performance due to its DOM magic. May be one selling point, but nevertheless a major selling point. Now, every one says "oh, but i don't care for the performance, i like that React can do XYZ" instead of proving the author wrong. Why? Because in truth 99% of developers would have no idea how to do it. I'm convinced that there is a significant amount of web developers who wouldn't even know how to write a web page in plain JS, CSS and HTML without the use of a myriad of tools that generate stuff for them. Same for other areas. If not for aphyr most people wouldn't even know how to test a database.