[bobthepanda]

> You burn a lot of mental energy figuring out which forms library, router library, etc to use

Why do you need a specific forms or router library? Those are both things you can do with vanilla ES2015+ and React.

The library problem is self-inflicted, but it doesn't help that search engines tend to boost a lot of half-baked Medium posts about why you should use slightly-nicer flavor-of-the-month library to wrap something really basic like the fetch browser API.