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If little can do a lot just imagine what I can do with few megabytes: Google Gmail/Youtube engineers

Probably a good batch of spaghetti code if you think vanilla can be used for anything serious.

Or rewrite react yourself as another commenter already did.

It is an old meme, that every js-developer, who does not use an existing framework, ends up with his own framework. (also happened to me)

Depending on the scope of the work, this is not allways a bad thing. I like my own framework. It does exactly what I want and I can tweak it to my needs anytime.

But I work alone and don't have to share my code with different developers, otherwise there would be problems ...

Yeah, the one complaint with frameworks is they never do exactly what you want, instead forcing you to do what generally works for everyone, which is usually good enough. But also can be frustrating. Which is probably why there are many frameworks.

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