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We first started adding the islands pattern to the Guardian’s website in 2019. It’s now 2022 and the benefits are not what we expectedThe first pull request [PR] to implement React islands on theguardian.com was opened in 2019 when our migration to React had barely started. Today, our new React rendering platform, Dotcom Rendering [DCR], serves 100% of all article content and we’re now working on our third island implementation.React islands is the name for the pattern where, instead of hydratin...