You could also say Python is pure overhead. You can write any Python programme in C, but more efficiently! C is faster, and therefore better.

This article avoids the fact that declarative programming has proven to be more pleasant for most people. And React simply is fast enough for most use cases, even though it has a performance penalty compared to Svelte. The virtual DOM is an elegant optimisation that usually works well in the real world, and methods like `shouldComponentUpdate()` can be used in the 1% of cases where the default is not fast enough.