You have to pick between agreeing with stuff like hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-… and believing Ember is pointless and you'd rather roll your own.

that's a little knee-jerk. It would be a false dilemma if I said you had to use Ember, but holding contradictory opinions...

Sorry, but anything that starts with "You have to pick between..."

those are not my only choices

ah! I think you slightly misread me. I meant "you can't hold both of these opinions at the same time" not "you need to pick one"