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.
It doesn't matter when you have running water and soap on the ready. Obviously after your ass is clean you ensure your hands are washed too before shutting off the water.
The water spray knocks off the bulk before hands get involved anyways.
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.
