> attitude that front-end should be easy, and then people are rudely surprised when they find out that it's actually very hard. Distributed systems problems, cache invalidation problems, combinatorial scaling of complexity with every feature and source of user interaction...

This sums it up so succinctly I'm going to borrow this next time I'm discussing react with one of my C# teammates. :)

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