Comment by jakubmazanec

If you're not into web development, Hacker News discussions about React are really bad way to gain unbiased perspective - it's been really popular here for last few years to just hate React (usually they know nothing, e.g. anyone who claims hooks compose worse than class components). But there's a reason why React is still used the most (large ecosystem, fast development and backwards compatibility). Of course, it's easy for inexperienced developer to produce slow and buggy apps (maybe slightly easier than in other frameworks, but that's practically unquantifiable), to include unnecessary or even badly written dependencies, etc. - but it's not the tool's fault when it's being used incorrectly.