I was very surprised the first time I saw JSX when working on React code. It really felt like a bastardization of what my gut felt were good software engineering practices.
But I concluded that surely these devs and Facebook are smarter than me. Or at least, different than me. I have built plenty of interactive web applications during my career using traditional approaches. So it's not like they were able to do things with these new tools I was previously not able to do.
It's hard to convince yourself that the masses may not have all the answers (cough Docker, Kubernetes cough). So I have found that ignoring the noise until I can't do something I need is the most productive approach. Continues to work for me 20+ year into building products.
But I concluded that surely these devs and Facebook are smarter than me. Or at least, different than me. I have built plenty of interactive web applications during my career using traditional approaches. So it's not like they were able to do things with these new tools I was previously not able to do.
It's hard to convince yourself that the masses may not have all the answers (cough Docker, Kubernetes cough). So I have found that ignoring the noise until I can't do something I need is the most productive approach. Continues to work for me 20+ year into building products.