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> the current crop of web devs have never experienced what it is to build an app without any abstraction such as React, and quite understandably have no idea what problems it is doing for them.

This is true. A lot of those struggles that the earlier people established, the patterns and best uses, those are lessons learned the hard way, and the impact on generation 2 is often much less because that wasn't a problem that needed to be overcome.