I come to think that corporate people love React because if you stop following the news and not be constantly reminded about the direction React is currently heading, you will fall out of the loop and your projects will stop working in 1 year or so. Which is beneficial for the employees, as they will never run out of work to do, maintaining the framework itself rather than their actual project. And the framework gets more complex with each year, too, so you can pretend that you are doing some complex work without actually doing it.