Well I came from the pre jQuery era but the whole industry is obsessed with react. There are tons of tools available web components are becoming standard, ultimately using native apis is far more performent but it's also more standard and consistent and easier than the old days to write pure vanilla js.
I have heard people say this in justification of their framework, library, abstraction, whatever. The reality is that, from my experience, I can easily replace maybe 8 other JavaScript developers.
I am not saying that out of arrogance or some uniformed guess at my radical superiority. I am saying this out of experience. It isn't because I am smart or a strong programmer. This has proven true for me, because when writing vanilla JS I am the bottleneck and the delay. I am not waiting on tools, performance delays, code complexity, or anything else. If there is bad code its because I put it there and I am at fault, and so I have nothing to blame but myself. Knowing this, and I mean as a non-cognitive emotional certainty, means I can solve the problem immediately with the shortest effort necessary or it isn't getting solved ever and that changes my priority of effort. It also means not tolerating a slow shitty product since you are fully in control (at fault).
When people go through project management training I tell them there are only two kinds of problems: natural disasters and bad human decisions. When you can remove blame from the equation the distance between you and the problem/solution becomes immensely shorter.
