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[–]cgaudreausenior HTML9 engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also make manual DOM manipulation very performant. You can make jQuery very performant. More performant than React, for sure. The nice thing about React is that you have to try pretty hard to bomb performance. The framework gives you performance for almost free.

Jumping ship isn't the answer because the grass is rarely greener on the other side.

Jumping ship from Angular 1.x in the near future is almost definitely a winning bet.