I completely agree with this. Here is the key point of the article, which I think goes hand in hand with Facebook's mission to create a new web that they are entirely in control of: "From Facebook’s perspective, React has to serve two functions: - priming and funnelling programmers into their enterprise and - suppressing development efficiency elsewhere. It’s positioned very well to achieve both."

This isn't conspiracy or tinfoil-hattery as other comments have mentioned. I think it's really the case and I doubt Facebook disagrees.