88 karma · joined February 2, 2019
After you've written the application? That makes absolutely no sense, unless you enjoy renaming lots of elements.
> instead of relying on some vague standard of semanticness
It's not vague, there is an actual international standard... WCAG!
Browsers don't care. You may not care either. But people with disabilities attempting to make sense of your website do, very much so.
There's absolutely no reason __not__ to use semantic HTML, and many reasons to do so.
React-motion requires a PhD to figure out, and I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than use Transition Group.
I have had some moderate success with Popmotion, although I've also seen performance issues when staggering lists (likely down to my implementation rather than the library, but still).
Perhaps you're the Junior developer?!