I truly believe, that even before Vibe Coding the amount of abstractions one is developing against has been in the way of learning programming and feeling good about it.

You do React + Redux or any other framework and feel like a lot of decision have been made for you without grasping the actual reasoning for these decisions.

The best learners I have encountered and for a year, I am trying to implement:

Learn the platform you develop for on a side project. You develop for the web and more on the programming side: Learn JS for Web and HTML. You will encounter state management, animations, events, DOM manipulation etc.. Solve them without libraries, first.