“This is not the first time there’s been pushback from the community towards changes that are introduced to React without much regard to how React is used outside Meta and Vercel.”
React 19 quietly stopped rendering Suspense siblings in parallel, turning every component that fetches its own data into a waterfall. The change shipped in a PR and went unnoticed until a TanStack Query maintainer spotted it. The React team only backed off after public pushback. A framework used by billions of people is being steered by two companies’ preferences, and everyone else finds out from tweets.