It’s not mutually exclusive though

R3F gets you up to speed really quick and helps to easily onboard a larger engineering team and stay productive

At some point your scenes will become complex enough that you will want to start using instanced meshes or just move all critical things into shaders all together…and you totally can do that.

In our case r3f made these performance optimization even easier because it’s so modular

For some use cases, like charts and diagrams, even a piss poor performance is enough as long as it is accessible to developers.

if you have a threejs app that pushes the limits, the react counterpart will merely do the same, only with less code. threejs renders exclusively.