Why don't we just take that statement to the logical conclusion of boiling it down to "javascript does some of the same stuff that D3 does". I mean yeah, you c

Why don't we just take that statement to the logical conclusion of boiling it down to "javascript does some of the same stuff that D3 does". I mean yeah, you can write everything that D3 does yourself, but React isn't actually doing anything here. You could swap React for Angular/Backbone in this situation and you'd still be the guy ignoring almost everything we're learned from leveraging open source projects over the last 20 years.