There's a world of options away from React today that have those features. We can't pretend only React has them.
There are a gazillion of options that resolve the same problems: Vue, Svelte, Solid, Lit, etc.
Backbone was born as better code organization on top of jQuery and CoffeeScript. It never attempted to solve these issues.
Haha, coffeescript was so hot for a minute
He had a very prolific year.
But to keep in the good graces of our thought leader overlords, let's start solid or svelte.
React looked great when I first used it for something really small. It looked horrific when I used it on a massive project with ridiculous amounts of data and tons of middleware. Although the real horror was the useEffect spaghetti. Vue keeps looking reasonable in every project I encounter it in. Even when people use it poorly, it's never Vue itself that's the problem. Well, maybe when people start working around the reactivity. That can get really bad.