Comment by orcasushi

Yes true! I once had the honour to work with a 'tech-lead' dev that rewrote a whole map application to AngularJS, which was the hype back then. I remember him not being able to get a just slightly complicated chain of asynchronous stuff working in vanillaJS. No problem, because he had AngularJS double binding now. No need to learn vanillaJS. Wicked stuff.