To be perfectly fair, you accused me of insulting you and said you "loathe" a word which I thought was a fairly inert term of art. Would you believe I didn't actually notice that you wanted me to say more? :) More than happy to give the benefit of the doubt though, the shoe's been on the other foot for me more than once.

For my part, I also loathe the insensate writhing mass of frameworks, patterns and dependencies that is "modern" frontend development. Where you and I differ is I recognize a handful of extremely good ideas hidden in the morass. But I am perfectly happy dismissing the majority of it; if nothing else, you shouldn't come away thinking of me as a React fanboy.

Writing is a lossy medium for thought, and programming is no exception. I'd say at a minimum that you and I are on the side of programmers whose code is a medium for their own thought.

All of these choices really just comes down to cognitive bandwidth, context, domain, taste, any number of things, really. Which is what was behind my first (admittedly terse, slightly salty) comment.

What I condemn is someone who opts out of making choices for themselves in their software. Web dev just happens to have an unfortunately high concentration of this sort of thoughtlessness.