If you want to get started quickly then review the fact that you even require a SPA in the first place.
Other than that, you can get started pretty damn fast with create-react-app.
Other than that, you can get started pretty damn fast with create-react-app.
1: they're too picky in what they want to use generators like this (or one of a billion Yeoman templates) - which then says don't complain something takes too long to set up when you're the one adding complexity
2: they count learning new methodologies/frameworks as part of the "setup"
In the case of #2, what you know is always going to be quicker than what you don't. Complaining that "it takes too long" should be rephrased to mean "I don't have the time to learn something new"