I did a code experiment to solve a sort problem for a shoe store example by color, size, Etc. I hand wrote the HTML, the CSS Style and all the JS for the form and sorting 3 pages 30 items took me a half hour. Then using react? In 4 hours I still don't have the look or sort right.

A few years ago, react was sold to a project I was working on as an absolute necessity. The project was, briefly, four web pages with a little dynamic content. An afternoon’s work. Uncounted person-hours later, it never worked. I never understood how it was supposed to.

I think the point is it's not meant to make sense. People are struggling with CSS bored with HTML don't want to learn JavaScript but Frameworks are fine? They don't know what they're doing and they don't care about the web. Or they're made to do it in order to keep a job. Shame.

Yep. Great to see you back in the thick of it, by the way! Keep it up!