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I feel its hard to articulate how broken react/typescript/the front-end ecosystem generally is unless you do a project with another paradigm.

I did an iOS app for a fairly important production use case around 2017 and once I relaxed and did the work to slow down and learn instead of just trying to get functionality to work it was a great experience.

I lost almost all taste for FE when react came around (elm was fun). Felt broken then, feels especially broken and taped together now. Somehow still the default.

Did ease of simple development peak with Visual Basic?
Maybe but I think it is fair for users to want richer more reactive experiences, especially with highly complex UIs in the browser.

However, react is 14 years old and there are (IMO) better options with cleaner abstractions available (hotwire, liveview, svelte)

The first screen of this article is all "me, Me, ME" blithering. No idea of the subject of the article. Don't do that.
Personal experiences of the author are in fact the subject of this article, as explained in the introduction.

> here’s some notes about what I’ve learned so far

Anecdotally, I found them useful and interesting; I’m also a web dev and I toy with the idea of trying xcode.