Second-guessing the modern web - macwright.org
I’m at the point where you look at where the field is and what the alternatives are – taking a second look at unloved, unpopular, uncool things like Django, Rails, Laravel – and think what the heck is happening. We’re layering optimizations upon optimizations in order to get the SPA-like pattern to fit every use case, and I’m not sure that it is, well, worth it.
Spot-on analysis of what React is and isn’t good for. And lest you think this is blasphemy, Dan Abramov agrees.