This implies that handling it well is aligned with keeping ones job. I don't agree with that mindset myself. I'd say they handled it poorly. But, then, both of us are at least half wrong regardless of which one is right.
> ...as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
I've since created a playlist dedicated to those lost songs, long forgotten fossils, as I randomly re-find or re-remember them. Sadly, there's fewer than 20 songs in there even after all this time.
> I’ve been considering building a “Hackintosh” system. But with Apple’s plans of going to ARM possibly by the end of this year, I don’t want to invest a lot in hardware that’s going to be obsolete soon.
This argument doesn't make much sense to me. While not all hardware works with the goal of building a hackintosh. Plenty of top of the line hardware does and will run Windows just fine if ARM becomes an issue.
On one hand I appreciate how elaborately the parent comment made their point. On another, I appreciate how succinctly you made your point. A conundrum within a conundrum, indeed.
If I remember correctly, React was only part of it. Lack of support for relational databases was a big issue as well. On top of that, people realized that they didn't need real time functionality and the overhead (and scaling) of mini-mongo et al was a difficult venture. Take with a grain of salt. This was all very long ago so my memory may not be accurate.