Comment by gf000

It worked as in react is the de facto frontend choice.

It didn't work as in if I were to ask for the router, state management, etc library, there would be a combinatorial explosion of react "frameworks", all sucking in different ways.

I am (and supposedly grandparent also) on the option that react leaves out way too much that would still be well in the scope of a 'UI framework', and while modularity can be a good thing in certain things, more modular, more moving parts does increase complexity.