[boredtofears]

It's all just javascript at the end of the day. What you're describing is exactly why many people like React.

> It's a lot harder to maintain over time than a more opinionated framework.

That's not true at all, that depends on the quality of the codebase the exact same as if it were built on an opinionated framework. I've seen plenty of bloated Rails codebases that were miserable to maintain.