I see this sentiment a lot, and sympathize with it because I value accessibility and access to content by people with less powerful devices and connections.
But full time I'm employed to build web apps that I can't conceive of building without Vue or React or some other AJAX tool at least. For example, a node management system, displaying up to twenty disparate nodes at once. Client expectations are that any edited node is immediately persisted to the server. If I refresh the page, I've got to rerender each of those elements. If I'm not using tech that has things like v-for, I'm building out 20n wonk ass custom event handlers from scratch... I'd love to find ways to build this vanilla, I do that for my personal projects, but I don't see a path.
But full time I'm employed to build web apps that I can't conceive of building without Vue or React or some other AJAX tool at least. For example, a node management system, displaying up to twenty disparate nodes at once. Client expectations are that any edited node is immediately persisted to the server. If I refresh the page, I've got to rerender each of those elements. If I'm not using tech that has things like v-for, I'm building out 20n wonk ass custom event handlers from scratch... I'd love to find ways to build this vanilla, I do that for my personal projects, but I don't see a path.