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Matt Levy

These are all great advantages of using React - I agree with you and often choose React for these reasons.

What I wanted to highlight was not a comparison of libraries but an awareness of good choices when developing applications that are targeted at browsers.

As an architect, I see many projects that default to a particular library or technology regardless of the context/scope of the app. Many developers I work with have little awareness of the impact of their choices and not all develop with performance in mind.

As you mention, tools are designed to help with many of these issues, particularly when apps need to scale. An increased awareness of the end result and utilising what the runtime provides natively will result in better products (often less bloated).