A developer argues against adopting a default web development stack, outlining four core problems: technical debt from prescribing solutions before diagnosing problems, non-transferable knowledge that abstracts away from web fundamentals, accelerated obsolescence from churnware with breaking changes, and vendor lock-in that sacrifices long-term stability. The recommendation is to default to CSS, HTML, and JavaScript as the true web stack, choosing additional tools only when their impact is understood and they align with project goals rather than developer preferences. React is singled out as a legacy framework to avoid.
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