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I don't do much front-end work, so maybe I'm just missing something, but are all of these frameworks really that much different? If this just for people who haven't learned one of the other frameworks or is there a compelling reason to switch?

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I think all the front-end frameworks are pretty similar, but if you are building Office add-ins, or some other application that lives in that ecosystem, then there is value in adhering to consistent UI elements.

I think there may be additional insights on their announcement post: https://blogs.office.com/2015/08/31/introducing-office-ui-fa...

I think this is similar to the framework galore on the backend, many of them trying to do similar things in slightly different ways. The other thing that has caused explosion in front end frameworks is Github + NPM.

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