[stevage]

I'm an experienced web dev, who mostly works with Vue. Sometimes I have to work on React apps.

Skimming through the list of sins, pretty much all of them look like things I do on a regular basis. I do not understand React. I find it pretty much incomprehensible, incredibly complicated, and overly complicated for what it does.

I can't really described what `useEffect()` does, only that it's a solution I use when other things don't work. I can't tell you when I should use `useRef()` rather than state or props.

I never have any of these issues in Vue. Its conceptual model has always been pretty easy to grasp, although it got messier in Vue 3 since they tried to copy React more.

[deweller]

useEffect() replaces component lifecycle hooks in Vue. useRef() is the answer to this.$refs in Vue.

Agreed that Vue and React are very different flavors. I think Vue has a shallower learning curve. In spite of React's problems, I do feel it scales to larger apps a little better than Vue. Both are great solutions.