Honestly if you just pay attention to the constantly shifting fads and “best practices” you’d have noticed by now.
Example: object oriented programming was THE WAY the write code a few years ago. Now functional programming is all the rage even though it has existed for decades. In fact, idiomatic react code just recently made the same switch.
I think it’s important to think critically and frankly having a discussion about the efficacy of contemporary design choices is the starting point.
I agree with that, but what you advocade isn't efficacy, "just write good vanilla js" is as useful of a statement as "just write clean code".
In practice I've never seen anyone capable of writing clean vanilla js except for myself.
Of course that's just me jerking off to my own standard. "Vanilla" is an useless approach when it comes to finding a common ground to work in a professional context. It's in-efficacy in that sense.
Example: object oriented programming was THE WAY the write code a few years ago. Now functional programming is all the rage even though it has existed for decades. In fact, idiomatic react code just recently made the same switch.
I think it’s important to think critically and frankly having a discussion about the efficacy of contemporary design choices is the starting point.