React is a pure abomination, and probably the worst thing that could happen to the web. Imagine Backbone with JSX, but w/o MVC, MVP or/and MVVM in mind. The amount of code that one needs to write even to handle simple registration form is the mind-blowing. Thanks to the lack of two-way binding support, when everything needs to be handled by hand, leading to the bloated codebase of copy-pasta of zillion of hooks. So, instead of focusing on biz logic, devs mostly end up writing scaffolding and functional logic.