This is a disappointing and highly inflammatory article. There’s a nuanced and interesting discussion to be had here but the author chooses to demonise and insult entire communities. Does this rhetoric help anyone?

Making highly interactive web apps in 2013 was painful and it is revisionist history to claim otherwise. Keyword being “highly interactive”. If you’ve been mostly building traditional sites then it’s a different situation.

The author says he likes Knockout… well, I respect Knockout too, but having spent many years maintaining a decade-old enterprise Knockout app, it is painfully clear that React was actually real progress.

These frameworks - warts and all - do solve real problems. Just as you shouldn’t trust someone who tells you they’re perfect, nor should you trust someone who dismisses them as a con.