I’ve shopped around a lot and most projects targeting a similar featureset are generally adopting the Next.js APIs for server-side data fetching. So it’s probably not as bad in terms of lock-in as you’d expect.

I think more people should take a look at https://blitzjs.com. It makes your lock in problem slightly worse I suppose but only because it argues that you want most apps to be coupled like this in real life. In exchange, it gives you great developer experience around things like data fetching.

Touched this about a half a year ago. Feels like rails for react. Very opinionated and interesting how prisma is used to set up the data schema.