It's an industry standard for people who like React. It's really that simple. This idea that they are so dominant and everyone is forced to use it is complete hogwash. JQuery and Wordpress still dominate the web completely.

Maybe you can explain this to my otherwise reasonable employer.

> ( whatever that means )

I inferred that the intent was to say that not all people using React fit into one category.

> ~80% of all the stuff they build does not require React or equivalent js frameworks

I'm well aware of this for some portion of the things I build, but I don't agree that these frameworks are generally unnecessary or not preferable. It's also hard to say when something "requires" these tools or not. Arguably you could say nothing requires them these days.

I like to build with all kinds of tools though, and React and Vue are for example are often more helpful than harmful to my development experience. I'm speaking as someone who has been building things for the internet for around 20 years.

> that would be both an ego and economic/résumé problem

Maybe. I think this might be more true in roles that are closer to entry level, though.