Software Development is fucked up

Well, that was your first mistake.. The official react starter kit from Facebook is a lot more basic: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/getting-started.html

Secondly, calm down, and maybe try to look around for better education materials than rage against the machine, where the machine is {Facebook, Big Tech, github/kriasoft}

This article is just a rant, first against tech company profits, then against react, then against someone's bundle having too many libraries, then against people who try to solve too many problems at once.