I do feel as though a lot of the initial conditions that existed around the time of React’s release are mostly no longer relevant and many of the assumptions that it was built around are no longer true.

It never cared much about the gaps that started to develop between “the React way” and the underlying web platform and now it’s off in its own weird self contained ecosystem and doesn’t play particularly well with anything else.

It also is one of those frameworks that starts forcing you to extend the same broken abstractions further and further into the rest of your stack up into your backends and data models. That isn’t a healthy sign at all.