> React is what a young hacker would invent under heavy hallucinogens after a week of reading Advanced Haskell tutorials

That's precisely why it works: it presents an alternative to the liminality requirements of maintaining the Ballmer Peak (which is is too NP-hard to reproduce) by tapping into the underdeveloped PFCs in young developers everywhere and making them productive by psyop-hacking their sense of adventure into the pursuit of complexity.

It's honestly sad, but a nonetheless really interesting study in emergent psychological dynamics.