I found that ChatGPT revived vanilla javascript and jquery for me.

Most of the chore part is done by chatgpt and the mental model of understanding what it wrote is very light and often single file. It is also easily embedded in static file generators.

On the contrary Vue/React have a lot of context required to understand and mentally parse. On react the useCallback/useEffect/useMemo make me need to manually manage dependencies. This really reminds me of manual memory management in C, with perhaps even more pitfalls. On vue the difference between computed, props and vanilla variables. I am amazed that the supposed more approachable part of tech is actually more complex than regular library/script programming.