[apatheticonion]

Try to implement a website without React or Angular/Vue.

When you hit your first list of elements and need to rerender the contents of just one of the elements, you will begin writing your own React.

If you try to implement some kind of "two way databinding", you will first create React, then create Angular.

However, unreadable and disorganised code can be written at any abstraction level. I have found React projects to be particularly hideous due to the fixation engineers have for tools like Redux.

Angular tends to be a bit better because it's got some decent software design principles built in - but you know front end engineers. Any project with ngrx is a write off from an readability perspective.

Isomorphic applications are also a meme that kill readability.

I write most of my personal projects using Preact and some kind of reactivity helper (RIP `Object.observe`, I grieve for you).