I’ve tried out storybook 7 recently and it does seem a bit better, but I do agree with you that storybook is less than ideal. I see storybook in the same way I see a complex webpack config, I have no idea how it works and once it is finally set up I don’t touch it. I would love to see something as easy as Jest to install with a simple interface for writing and testing react code.

I think storybook tries to do too much, and I’d like to see a really dead simple interface with Vite or similar where I can easily prototype and test stuff based on *.stories.tsx or similar.

I don’t need all the stupid addons, just give me a dev server with navigation and routing built in, and an easy way to hide the whole interface to simulate a normal web page.