Why do so many static websites use react?
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Content in a db?
Because apparently developers only learn React now and their brain shrinks, the only thing they can do is use some tools that generate garbage boilerplate for them and they have no idea of what all that means.
Doesn't mean React itself is bad. When React appeared it was a magical revolutionary dream, it was hard to believe, it solved so many problems.
You also get components and other things that come along with react, you don't actually need to use any of react states etc you can just have plain html in ever component with no logic haha
You build with what you know and many people know React.