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We sometimes have to step back from our high tech bubble. Check out jQuery's usage on the web. The unbeatable juggernaut that React seems from up here clocks at under 5% market share. It's sobering.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library

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There might be a long tail phenomenon at play here. Do you have stats on number of developers using the tech or on page views for each framework?

Regarding page views, from a quick search, the only top 10 sites that use React are from Meta.

So it’s either a strange distribution curve, with a bump in the neck and a colossal tail, or we’re trapped in a bubble and blinded by our own crazy reality distortion field.

As to number of developers, if a lot more of us are needed to write a tiny fraction of the pages, maybe that’s the symptom right there.

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