My god, this article reads like a non fiction incarnation of "infinite jest" its basically impossible to understand the authors concrete intent and meaning of whole paragraphs without reading the footnotes and the linked articles while reading the post. And if i understand it correctly, it completely misses the point who is to blame. Angular and react solutions were seldom sold from an actor with deep information to a manager or business with less information. In my experience the top 2 situations were a) managers/half-technical founders wanted what they had read about and google or facebook were backing and did not want to hear about a proper evaluation, b) devs and whole dev teams wanted to just use what they knew and read about 100% thinking this was the best solution because of their inexperience and lack of reflection. The first is just your usual ignorance towards the experts by buzz word driven and half-knowledge managers, the latter could be more likened to the brainwashing of cult members than intransparent market situations.