Agreed! In many ways it is massively underrated precisely because it isn't backed by a Google or Facebook. Definitely glad that people are seeing its awesomeness based on merits. I love React and its whole ecosystem, but Vue definitely stands on equal footing. There's good reasons to love both.

Absolutely. This is what I love about Aurelia (a more fully-fledged SPA framework), it isn't run by a massive company, has a great community and the core team regularly listens to the community and participates in discussion. I think we are seeing a rise of new anti-behemoth frameworks that are able to move faster.