[ramoz]

Imo react is simpler to get stuff done with up until a certain point. Every large react project I’ve contributed to, or adopted, had the same overhead you described of Angular. Further, each had built custom abstractions due to the nature of how integration works with react. Some apps were fine, some had 1000+ line state files, 1000+ lines of hooks management before a render, weird ways of using context or passing props.

Today we still prototype mostly with react. It’s easier to staff junior devs around and empowers them when it comes to trivial logic with cool UX.

Any large scale work, or prototypes going to prod, do so with Angular. Where we’re confident in the Sr level engineers writing that code.