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Learn D3 then (assuming you're doing something chart-like as most of us are) move to something like VisX or some non-React equivalent and never look back.

I view D3 and jQuery as being somewhat similar and both are very prone to spaghetti. Something like VisX adds a lot of structure over the D3 you're using to keep things sane.

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I’ve been using D3 on and off for quite some time. I’m just starting now with react and visx definitely looks very promising as it bridges the gap nicely. Do you find it limiting though (like you have to fight the tool) to achieve something more custom vs. using plain D3?

VisX starts with low-level primitive components that match very closely to D3 primitives. It then builds some chart primitives on top of those and then builds some charts on top of that. You can build pretty much anything using the lowest-level primitives and still have a better developer experience than D3 IMO.

If you don't need any real customizability (and know you won't need it in the future), I'd stick with something with something less customizable, but faster to setup. If you know you need custom, take the 10-20% more time to setup and be able to change in the future as that'll be faster than porting your charts over.

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