Look, if you're over 28, you should be in management by now.
What, you've got some other way of updating the DOM using the existing elements? Some other way of receiving data from the server and updating the page? Some other way of detecting bad form data? Pshaw.
You probably still use CSS.
EDIT: Because hivemind cannot into humor, this was all sarcasm.
Humor?!? How dare you, sir! Arguing about the smallest minutia of javascript frameworks is no laughing matter! Why, just last week a friend of mine used Angular when he should have used Angular2, the fool! His arms turned black and fell off! Do you want your arms to turn black and fall off? I thought not!
Because they were part of its creation and are invested in it.
> Or why companies like Sony, Reddit, and Pinterest use Backbone.
Pinterest just switched to React.
> Or why companies like Netflix, Yahoo, and LinkedIn use Ember.
Netflix just switched to React.
> There are smart people out there not choosing React. Ask yourself, why not?
Not for long.