It's extremely frustrating these days when someone makes any claims about sizes/scale without providing actual numbers.

Your "largish" could be 10000 daily active users, which is my medium, and small for someone else.

Or maybe your "largish" is 1000000 for a site with mostly static, cachable parts, but the the same people were to build the same thing for a different audience that require a lot of interactivity and things that are different to say they wouldn't make the same claims.

What are you doing and what is the HN community doing.

Sure, React has its own problems and I choose not to use it outside of my job now. But if you're to convince someone else that something is worth switching to in terms of TECHNOLOGY, we need more than feels, vibes, and anecdotes.

It's not that I think you're right or wrong. However, if you are going to go out of your way to make a technical comment to make the world better place (I hope that's what you want to do), it requires more than a 2007 effort for people who care enough to make a difference now: otherwise you're just another person defending what they like most without any real data.

Don't forget that anyone who has any real experience as a software engineer knows that every day is about making trade-offs. Think deeply about what why I say this and what this means. If you don't know why, I hope you will find out or you will stop sprouting cult-like nonsense until you know why.