Comment by sebular

You're going to struggle as a novice if you're quick to form opinions about things that you don't fully understand, especially if those opinions involve rejecting wildly popular tools used by people with far more expertise than you have.

People who understand React/Vue/Angular are free to criticize them (and have many valid reasons for doing so), but when you do it after following a beginner tutorial or two, you're just being ignorant.

How do I know this? Because you're criticizing React for forcing you to "do everything through a JSX template" and "debugging through a transpiler", which tells me that you aren't aware that React can be used without JSX and without any transpiling.

Since that information is available to you on about the fourth paragraph of the "Getting Started" page on reactjs.org, you clearly haven't bothered to learn much about it at all.