> Because maybe I’ll still be fine and alive and kicking by then—but all those bright-eyed eager newcomers getting churned out of code schools knowing only React?
> Those jobs will be gone.
I find this faux concern tacked on at the end unconvincing. Everyone who's been in tech a while has learned some things that proved to have a short half-life. It doesn't mean they are doomed, they just learn the next thing and keep on going as progress marches on. For example, the poor ROI of my investment in learning jQuery in 2013 has not stopped me from having a very enjoyable career these last 10 years.
I'm no React zealot and will tell you I intentionally avoid trying to build frontend expertise because these things tend to fall away so quickly. But despite my healthy skepticism, I genuinely don't understand the angry and bullying tone coming across in these type of articles lately. If you don't want to use React, don't use it. It's very simple. I don't see why it's so offensive to you that others are making different choices.
When you say "I don’t think most React developers have evaluated shit!" and call their decisions/preferences "ludicrous", the only thing that comes across is that you apply "I don't agree, therefore others are stupid" as your primary lens. Which, fine, if that's how you want to conduct yourself. But it's not the sort of approach I look for in my leadership.