Completely agree. Looking at his eventual realization of these ideas, Cycle.js, it's just a complete mess in terms of declarative, easy to understand components. The beauty of React, beyond its simple lifecycle API and virtual DOM, is that you can glance at a component and very quickly reason what it does and how it works. I can't say the same for anything that came out of this article.

There's a tendency in JavaScript development especially to overthink, over-engineer, and over-abstract. We're still in the middle of the woods with JavaScript application development. I hope we get out soon!