Hilariously – react server components largely solves all three of these problems, but developers don't seem to want to understand how or why, or seem to suggest that they don't solve any real problems.

It’s no secret that RSC was at least partially an attempt to get close to what Relay offers but without requiring you adopt GraphQL.

There's an informed critique of RSC, but no one is making it.

I agree though worth noting that data loader patterns in most pre-RSC react meta frameworks + other frameworks also solve for most of these problems without the complexity of RSC. But RSC has many benefits beyond simplifying and optimizing data fetching that it’s too bad HN commenters hate it (and anything frontend related whatsoever) so much.