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I recently fired up a project in Django, after not using it for a decade, and I had the same feeling. I defined a couple of models and BOOM I had a working website. Felt a little bit like the last ten years of web framework development hasn't resulted in anything better.

As you point out, the React ecosystem does seem to be mired in "what approach should I take"-style questions for basic things like data loading, routing, etc.