WordPress to ditch React library over Facebook patent clause risk

More discussion on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253781

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15261213

While the patent clause is part of the issue, the WP leadership has been given a lot of backlash for their choice of React. It is (rightfully) seen by many as overly complicated and not a great fit for the WP admin panel.

When you combine this with a lot of uncertainty over the upcoming Gutenberg editor, I feel it's good to take a step back to evaluate options, but am also afraid of Gutenberg not shipping, which would be disastrous for WP since the current TinyMCE editor badly needs an overhaul.