Thanks for posting your React version and offering a bullet list of real points of critique.
That said, please don't use the word "trolling" to make what is essentially an ad-hominem attack against someone whose point you disagree with. The author probably spent at least an hour, if not multiple hours, thinking through a problem and presenting a solution as a blog post. Whatever you think of his argument, this is clearly not the work of the troll.
"He's trolling" has recently become the tech community's version of Salem's "She's a witch."
I agree that maybe "trolling" is not the most accurate description. The author seems to be a competent coder, so I am assuming that he knows that such a solution for view components is flawed at least and that it would be a nightmare to go that way.
My biggest concern with the original post is the next sentence, "If you want to use React, fine, I am not trying to convince anyone not to. I just want to show that components in a JavaScript application are quite simple to do and do not require any framework at all to do so." (The author has updated the post to clarify that "I am a proponent of using libraries and frameworks." I think that this was missing in the original post, I think that it would have been nice to add at the end of the post "Crazy, isn't it? Don't do it! Don't reinvent the wheel and tada-tada-tada...)
Not sure about the intentions of the author, but I think that the original post makes a great case to support the use of these frameworks and not the opposite.
Thinking through the deeply complex problem of how to display a static heading, image and three bullet points? This is master troll material. I LOLed greatly.
That said, please don't use the word "trolling" to make what is essentially an ad-hominem attack against someone whose point you disagree with. The author probably spent at least an hour, if not multiple hours, thinking through a problem and presenting a solution as a blog post. Whatever you think of his argument, this is clearly not the work of the troll.
"He's trolling" has recently become the tech community's version of Salem's "She's a witch."