Thanks for the effort :), but these points are simply unsound. Far from being a patch, React offers -one- standard model for writing UIs on any platform. Thus React at its core has nothing to do with the DOM (see React-Hardware, React-Blessed, React-Native, React-Canvas...React-DOM is just another rendering target). Also, in a real-world app React drastically simplifies actual code with the tiny tradeoff of adding a small amount of complexity onto &quot;the web stack&quot;. If you actually care and weren&#x27;t just trolling, you---or a reader who shares your uninformed intuition---might enjoy this wonderful high-level overview of what React is actually about: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=H1vW1w8k7J0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=H1vW1w8k7J0</a>