> If you recall the (in)famous "PHP: a fractal of bad design", React basically ticks every box in this rant and then some.

I dare you to walk us through that blog post and explain to us in detail how React "basically ticks every box".

Not only does React not compare to PHP in the slightest, I also find this comparison rather wild because other web frameworks rank so much higher than React on the "quirks & arcane code you need to understand" scale. (I have PTSD from Angular and Vue in particular.)