Folk like Alex Russell has a weird an intense hatred of how people actually use JavaScript. Of course he dresses it up as caring about user experience, but - surprise - every single time the solution to a problem turns out to be "don't write React/Angular", which is not a very pragmatic stance.
This wouldn't be such a problem, except he has a huge sway on the language via TC39 and the web via his work at Google, and keeps trying to foist over-designed complex solutions, like Web Components and PWAs onto developers.
This wouldn't be such a problem, except he has a huge sway on the language via TC39 and the web via his work at Google, and keeps trying to foist over-designed complex solutions, like Web Components and PWAs onto developers.