I hate it because of announcements like this; we are, as a small team, just getting to terms with react 18; a lot of libraries still are not working well with it and there is 19 already. It sucks.

So yeah nothing wrong with the concept of react, just the usual and terrible javascript ecosystem churn with stuff we don't need, but now everyone will have to update and so do we. Nice if you have a dedicated frontend team for every of your apps, not so nice for a small team that has to manage many apps across many clients.

I like major (potentially) compatibility breaking updates every 10 years or so, not every 3 weeks.

So yeah, we went off react to vanilla js, htmx and liveview type stuff which makes this all far simpler. Dev is also far simpler for us; all the pitfalls are no longer there. There might be some advantages to react in some cases; we won't look back; we never had a more relaxed team especially since we ditched nextjs and react; the trying out of other tech for frontend made us realize react was wrong for us all along anyway. ymmv of course.