Have to agree, those of us that work on seriously large systems and have a strong foundation in design principals and system architecture are not going to switch to a system that takes us back to procedural controllers and weak components that are not self encapsulating.
It's sad that React get's such a bad wrap when it really is a simple framework. But somehow react gets a bad wrap for the entire Javascript stack (npm, webpack, etc..). React does not require these, but experienced software developers who have been bite by lack of dependency management, build management, etc etc tend to favor this stack because they need maintainability of code base. Sure it's a little more learning curve than throwing jquery on a page, but once you learn the js build stack the benefits outweigh the investment. I too believe React is here to stay for a while, it's a well built framework built buy guys that value proper design and prudence over magic that morphs into spaghetti.
It's sad that React get's such a bad wrap when it really is a simple framework. But somehow react gets a bad wrap for the entire Javascript stack (npm, webpack, etc..). React does not require these, but experienced software developers who have been bite by lack of dependency management, build management, etc etc tend to favor this stack because they need maintainability of code base. Sure it's a little more learning curve than throwing jquery on a page, but once you learn the js build stack the benefits outweigh the investment. I too believe React is here to stay for a while, it's a well built framework built buy guys that value proper design and prudence over magic that morphs into spaghetti.