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I would agree that it looks very complex today. But it's not too challenging to learn.

I would advise learning React (they have both create-react-app and Expo now to make the experience simpler) from the docs.

When learning React, some things were alien at first, but after getting the basics down I realized writing JS applications with React felt much simpler than what I used to be doing. It resulted in shorter file lengths and cleaner code, and the concepts shouldn't feel too foreign if you have backend experience (it's probably harder if you learned JS through jQuery and webpage interactivity logic).