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Stop staring at your package.json and wondering if you made a mistake.
Most developers leave frameworks because of the upgrade treadmill. You spend more time migrating versions than building features. This is a real problem, but it is not the only reason to move to the web platform.
There are four pillars for moving to vanilla JavaScript and Web Components.
Total Cost of Ownership Framework code depreciates like a car. It loses value every day through ecosystem drift. You must constantly inject capital through migrations just to keep it running. Web platform code depreciates like land. The ground does not move. Code written today will still run in 2040 without changes.
The Labor Market If you hire for a specific framework, you hire from a small subset. If you hire for JavaScript, you hire from the entire frontend and backend market. Every framework developer is a JavaScript developer, but the reverse is not true. A vanilla codebase is legible to everyone.
AI Leverage AI tools work better on the web platform. The platform is stable and documented. Frameworks move too fast. AI models often suggest deprecated patterns or old versions because their training data is stale. On the platform, the correct pattern from 2016 is still correct in 2026. This makes AI-assisted development cheaper and more reliable.
Architecture Frameworks use a central brain to manage the UI. This creates tight coupling. If you want to change the framework, you must rewrite everything. Web Components use autonomous cells. Each component owns its own state. You can replace one part without breaking the whole system. This allows for incremental migrations instead of risky, big-bang rewrites.
The Strategy: Do not do a total rewrite. Use the strangler pattern.
- Freeze your current framework version.
- Build all new components as Web Components.
- Convert old components only when you need to touch them for features.
- Remove the framework shell last.
This approach turns a massive risk into a series of small, manageable steps.
Source: https://dev.to/sebs/frameworks-rot-the-platform-doesnt-58g0