“The ‘easier to get started’ [argument] seems a bit fallacious to me,” Ventura said. “Easier to whom? At what cost to properly learning JavaScript? The demands of rich interfaces in web applications require a deeper understanding of the technologies used.

The fact that a framework is easier to learn does not mean that its users does not have (or does not want to have) a deeper understanding of the underlying technology. Ease of use could in fact have the opposite effect; it makes you want to learn more, not less.