I was thinking about making a video tutorial on how to convert a React app to jQuery as a sort of satire piece but I was afraid the result might be good enough that it wouldn't come across as a joke in the end.
With React; component + props = view, this makes it easy to reason about what your UI looks like because it is a result of how you manipulate your data.
With jQuery that is more like: view = html + a bunch of (spaghetti) code. This can make it harder to reason about because you need to implement the logic to update your view and event handlers yourself.