[addicted]

> What do you get out of Next.js over vanilla React?

The biggest problem is that React itself recommends against using Vanilla React.

https://react.dev/learn/creating-a-react-app

> If you want to build a new app or website with React, we recommend starting with a framework.

This, frankly, is insane. The whole point of React was that it was this relatively lightweight UI library you could drop into pretty much any workflow.

The fact that the React docs themselves recommend against using the React library as a library is just mind boggling but also another instance in the long history of React devs being absolutely hostile to their users.