I used to absolutely love react. Then I spent two years breaking apart a monolithic SPA into a bunch of federated micro frontends, and I saw the darkside of where React monoculture can go. When your entire website runs in the framework, complexity goes through the roof.

After I was laid off I realized that what I actually loved about react was JSX components, so I wrote a template engine on top of JSX and started doing server side rendering in my own apps. It's a quiet life