I voted for the first option too.
That "React Is A Terrible Idea" post is narrow-minded nonsense. It's major criticism of React seems to be that browsers are improving all the time, so anybody trying to do anything about slow rendering speeds now is really just wasting their time.
That might be true, but IMHO it's the likes of React showing up how crap DOM rendering really is, that will be forcing the browser makers' hands here.
Plus, we all know that Fortune 100 companies always update to the latest browser versions the day that they're released, right? Not one of them still stuck on IE 9 (or worse!) "due to compatibility issues with our existing codebase".