The main gist of this seems to be that other frameworks beat React on performance.. but who cares? The speed difference in 99.99% of apps is one that no-one can perceive

React trades this very minor performance hit to give us better developer clarity through a functional paradigm. This makes complex state management much easier to manage

A better article could've been written for this title. I just don't care about improving renders by 3ms when it's already fast enough

I think the reason React won, and is still top dog, is that improvements to performance at this point aren't worth it if you have to give up something beneficial