Comment by samhuk

> devs being too afraid to suggest something else

What is the "something else" to React that you allude to? Vue? NextJS? Preact? Angular? Heh, PHP?

I've tried almost every big-name web app framework under the sun, React for 7 years, Angular an age ago for a year or two. Vue for a few months. Etc. In my experience, everythig either trends away from React (Vue, Angular, ...) and fails ("fail" -> never gains widespread adoption, zero job market, or just less popular than React, etc.), or sticks close to React (Preact, ...) and still fails because they have no real unique offering/large benefit over React, particularly in "enterprise" setting (which is what predominantly matters).

> and because "everyone else" is doing it

That's tautological. {thing} isn't popular for no reason. There is always some unique value-add that {thing} offers over {competing things}.

One of the life lessons I always remember for myself, particularly in software development: There better be a very good reason why you're betting against the mass. They are many and a good proportion of them smarter than you.