Maybe the (relative) lack of ecosystem has kept you away, but I really recommend checking out both Dioxus and Leptos. Leptos is incredibly similar to React, but with Rust ergonomics, and it's been a pleasure to learn and use. With an LLM by my side that knows React and Rust pretty well, I've found myself not even needing the React libraries that I thought I would, since I can easily build on the fly the features/components I actually need.

I too, eventually gave up on React <> WASM <> Rust but I was able to port all my existing React over into Leptos in a few hours.