"It is now 2025 and React (and its descendants) dominates the way developers build sites and apps." Is there any research which tells react is dominating or most of the internet is not vanilla HTML but react?
1. On one hand, walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc, are most of the internet and they decidedly use React (or similar) frameworks. So from that perspective, the statement is sorta trivially true.
2. There may well be a horde of websites that are pure HTML rendering. But, those sites are not largely being developed by developers – they are being generated by platforms (like Squarespace, etc.) so are out of the scope of "sites and apps built by developers"
All this is stated without data, of course.