Nobody's telling you to use React when you have a static HTML page. But if you ever worked on an app of even medium complexity, you would understand what React is solving for developers. State management is the problem, and your vanilla JS forms are not going to cut it.
The problem is, I worked on these, half of my life. And while I agree that declarative rendering has its upsides, I am not blind to downsides and bait-and-switch-complexity tricks. React is pretending to be a functional “not your concern how it’s done” language without any safety nets or execution models these usually provide.
If we agree that declarative rendering has its upsides, then it is ridiculous to keep moaning that the complexity is "nuts" and that everyone's just insane for no reason. React is what a declarative model looks like. It eliminates an entire class of UI, state, and behavior management issues, in exchange for working within its rendering engine. If you're looking to build a complex frontend, that is extremely attractive.
> If we agree that declarative rendering has its upsides, then it is ridiculous to keep moaning that the complexity is "nuts" and that everyone's just insane for no reason. React is what a declarative model looks like.
Are you saying that Vue isn't a declarative model?
