In reply to Drew Jaynes.

Your devil's advocate question is akin to asking "Why should Coke change its formula to remove strychnine?" While a little extreme it is an apt analogy. This BSD+Patents licensing is causing some huge problems.

The thing is, Facebook runs the risk of React becoming unusable. I have already seen threads from other developers who are talking about moving their ReactJS-based projects over to VueJS. This will also bring about a shift in developers from ReactJS to VueJS, AngularJS, or whatever framework they switch to.