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They also reworked their whole codebase to use React instead of jQuery, among other things. Please read the article before commenting.

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I read the article, but for me as a user it doesn't matter at all if the client is written in jQuery, plain javascript, React or some new shiny framework. Memory usage seems to be the same, as long as I don't feel any performance difference nothing has changed.

They also talked about a different loading strategy which will gradually request content as needed instead of doing it all up-front, dramatically decreasing time-to-first-interaction.

And code quality has a huge impact on user experience in the long run. Writing it off as a non-factor is laughably ignorant.

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