React highlights how crummy the DOM is for performance-sensitive apps and how fantastic JavaScript has become.  When devs&#x27; current fatigue wears off, I hope they pick up React and see just how different it is.<p>Browsers need an alternate DOM api with simplified immutable data structures and a tunable subset of CSS before I&#x27;d be comfortable with interacting with it directly.  There are a zillion beartraps in DOM and CSS.