Erich Gamma, Technical Fellow, Microsoft:<p>> what many people don't know is that we decided to not use any UI frameworks from the beginning, and that's still true today because performance is very important to us, and we want to be fully in control of our own destiny. So we don't want to chase a framework or track down performance from in the framework, we want to be directly as close to the DOM as possible.
A bit click bait, the answer is the obvious one: performance and independence.<p>Things that could have been a tweet (or tweet-sized blog post). But no, it’s a TikTok video on YouTube.
Building your own proprietary frontend framework still counts as a framework in my mind. Like how a custom tailored suit is still a suit, just one that is, well, tailored to spec. The whole "no framework" narrative is silly.