[impoppy]

It doesn't necessarily mean that React does it right. When building React apps, developers spend too much time on designing architecture for many things that should have been taken care of by the tools they are using. The more I am in web development, be it backend or frontend, the more I'm disappointed that declarative programming is still not a thing. One too many hours wasted on reducing boilerplate, replacing big boilerplate with smaller boilerplate, optimizing boilerplate and writing that boilerplate. While still being far from perfect, other frameworks like Vue and Svelte do great job at making the developer write less boilerplate and more business logic.

[hirako2000]

I agree with that, that's not so specific to react. So I kept it to narrating the main problem I and others have with react, which is that feeling that I keep learning the framework for a variety of reasons that I believe are frustrating developers, those who want to be more than react developers.

The non declarative aspect is a problem though, with v19 it now means unbelievably large PRs and time spent to refactor will take place for migrators. Declarative would at least reduce reduce that pain.