I agree with everything you say right up until you glorify React.
React too will churn to dust in another few years, when the Next Hotness comes out. I've been building GUIs of various flavors going back to MFC on Win16. Every few years the technology shifts, and if you don't want to get left behind, you shift with it. The New Thing is always compelling but it's also never a pareto improvement on the Old Thing. Hell, there are still some aspects of React that make me miss MFC (like, how about a decent tree control??).
I've spent most of the last year working with React. It's ok. But it's not different this time; it's just one more step along the way. In another two years I expect to be using something else.
React too will churn to dust in another few years, when the Next Hotness comes out. I've been building GUIs of various flavors going back to MFC on Win16. Every few years the technology shifts, and if you don't want to get left behind, you shift with it. The New Thing is always compelling but it's also never a pareto improvement on the Old Thing. Hell, there are still some aspects of React that make me miss MFC (like, how about a decent tree control??).
I've spent most of the last year working with React. It's ok. But it's not different this time; it's just one more step along the way. In another two years I expect to be using something else.