> How do you know your ability to write React apps today isn’t as much of an industry dead-end over the long arc of technological web history as was writing AngularJS apps 10 years ago? Seriously, how do you?

There's a long, long line of flash-in-the-pan frameworks that never really gained traction -- and then there's React (which _isn't_ a framework, but fine, let's roll with it). AngularJS, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Preact, Ember, etc all contributed to the ecosystem and then more-or-less faded into relative obscurity. But for all that time -- since 2014! -- React has done nothing but grow _even more popular_. It's not like React is an equal choice among others; if you're building a non-trivial web application in 2023, it's the default choice and the only one you _don't_ have to justify.

We let a million flowers bloom, it was chaotic and confusing, and now that time is...mostly past. I'd have more sympathy with TFA if it had been written in, say, 2017 -- but to assert that "React could just fade away like AngularJS!" in 2023 is just willfully blind to reality.