I’m using Vue as a UI for a desktop app for developer collaboration (<a href="https://aether.app" rel="nofollow">https://aether.app</a>), whose Vue part is about 60,000-70,000 lines of code. I guess this makes me a large, advanced user.<p>I don’t get it. Seriously, Vue 2 is great, so much fire and forget. There’s a bunch of problems that I am supposed to have, which justifies these changes, but I really don’t have them. Single file components solve it all for me.<p>This feels like Vue is trying to become React, but ... I’m using Vue because I think it’s much more valuable than React. I also get that it’s said that none of the things I like will change and I could just keep using it as is, but when was that ever really true - the new features always take more of the mindshare than keeping existing users.<p>This might be the curse of us all: the people who build successful things tend to be the most extreme users of their own thing. It helps you by making you have high standards at the beginning, but later on, if you keep serving yourself, you’ll end up with something like Angular where it eclipses past the sweet spot where most of the users are and goes for ever more advanced things with not so much of an audience, just because you’ve been solving your own problem and that has even a good metric thus far.