I appreciate the detailed critique of modern web development, particularly the issues with React. However, I noticed a few contradictions in your arguments. While you criticize JavaScript frameworks for their complexity, your suggested alternative, SvelteKit, is still a JavaScript framework. Additionally, you emphasize that most web apps can be written with pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but JavaScript remains central to your proposed solutions. It seems that your primary issue is with React specifically, rather than with JavaScript or frameworks in general.

Also, I think you check your facts about React. React’s virtual DOM is actually more performant than directly selecting and manipulating the DOM with vanilla JS.