I don't use React (I main Vue), so I can't speak authoritatively. But as an outside observer it feels like React gets progressively more and more "mind-bendy" with every passing year, and when I look at some high-complexity React apps my mind nearly explodes with the amount of crazy complexity that needs be managed to keep the things behaving the way they're meant to.
I personally believe a lot of React developers are experiencing the framework equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome. I would encourage any React devs reading this to go look at the Vue composition API and then try to explain why all of these increasingly convoluted abstractions are necessary.
useState -> ref
useEffect -> watchers
useRef -> template-refs
The only difference I see, is that Vue rerenders nothing by default whereas React rerenders everything by default. And I admittedly agree with Vue on this one, but it's not enough to make me give up the superior ecosystem and JSX.
The boilerplate for creating computed's is comparable to setting up useMemo calls. And oh look: the justification for computed is exactly the same as useMemo/useCallback: https://vuejs.org/guide/essentials/computed.html#computed-ca...