I actually like React's virtual DOM approach. It might not be the fastest possible solution, not the most elegant syntax, not particularly concise. but I can at least understand what it does and how data flows. I learned the hard way that with reactive programming (whether you call it observables, runes, signals, whatever) you can lose that understanding and it's a huge pain when that happens.

No Server Components though, they are the pinnacle of too clever to be a good idea.