Comment by gwbas1c

"Choose boring technologies"

For many software projects, you don't want to take technical risk on something like a UI framework. React is now boring.

Personally, I want a browser UI framework that's more like desktop/mobile UI programming. Working with the DOM directly kinda-sorta tries to do this, but it's so fundamentally "weird" compared to just getting a pointer / reference to an item onscreen, that it's clear why the React way is much more popular.