The cute robot soccer game is a disingenuous argument. Put a machine gun on one of those Boston Dynamic robots with image recognition targeting and tell me it's not scary.
I always thought that universities being economically powerful could be an advantage so they could be another pillar of civilization, less beholden to corporate or government influence. I do wonder if they are using that power well recently though.
The Overture+ performance comparison is virtualizing the list nodes and not adding them all to the dom so its kind of an unfair comparison. You could do that with react-virtualized.