Your technical comments make sense. But regardless of the underlying tech, React has enabled an entire generation of devs to create front end apps with solid community support. For most use cases, React is great. Performance is good, documentation is robust, community is supportive, online videos, books, tutorials etc. are plenty. These things also matter.
Some of the technically most unsound languages, frameworks etc. have very high adoption for these reasons. So no, I don't agree that React sounds ridiculous from a holistic perspective.
Some of the technically most unsound languages, frameworks etc. have very high adoption for these reasons. So no, I don't agree that React sounds ridiculous from a holistic perspective.