It's trendy to take a shot at new things. You need to build a solution to the problem - sometimes HTML can get this done and sometimes it can't. I agree that we've gone off the deep end of "everything must be react" but it's silly to say this is simply to drive resumes. It's mostly under-experienced folks using react as their hammer to deal with any nail, screw or bolt they come across - but that hammer is useful and when you've got a nail you should use it.