Unless the person has spent their entire career working with React, I see no contradiction here. Or do you think that any experience outside of React doesn’t count?
Was it me? I ask questions like this all the time. I’m a senior engineer that has spent the better part of 2023 migrating failed react-native disasters back to fully native projects and retraining the devs to use a new stack.
Were you the person throwing things into a dependency array expecting some behavior but getting another because you used the functionality without reading the docs?
What scares me a lot is that, I believe, many companies will see inexperience as an asset. Good experiences engineers know things, and sometimes/often that's kind of inconvenient for business/product types, whose conceit is that they think their idea is great and that it ought to be simple & dev "resources" should just do it. Sharing power is less fun than being the boss, than the uninformed feeling in charge.
The MBA'ification of various sectors keeps resulting in disaster & decline, but empowering craftspeople & laborers to do good seems to remain deeply unpopular by most businesses.
Whether businesses care enough to share ownership with the dev "resources" is a somewhat scary ongoing balance. It's sick to say, but to me it's unclear what concerted forces will help maintain experience & knowledge as a useful thing, amid a hyper-capitalism running amock. I hope my fears here are deeply unjustified.
