>However, saying it’s pure overhead and then not qualifying how much is a catastrophic failure of reasoning.
a more catastrophic failure of reasoning, that is far more prevalent, is not understanding that virtual DOM is overhead on top of the regular DOM, not some magic fairy dust invented by facebook geniuses that just makes the web better (tm) because you are a dev whose first exposure to web development was via a React tutorial where you built some <popular app> clone as it held your hand every step of the way, and now you are loosed into the jungle of problems in the wild ready to crush the spirits of those old tired jquery devs. bwahahahaha.
a more catastrophic failure of reasoning, that is far more prevalent, is not understanding that virtual DOM is overhead on top of the regular DOM, not some magic fairy dust invented by facebook geniuses that just makes the web better (tm) because you are a dev whose first exposure to web development was via a React tutorial where you built some <popular app> clone as it held your hand every step of the way, and now you are loosed into the jungle of problems in the wild ready to crush the spirits of those old tired jquery devs. bwahahahaha.