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> the go to solution was the facebook maintained CRA which is now deprecated

Not only did they deprecate it, they refused to acknowledge it's existence in the new docs which is wild to me.

It may have changed in the last year, but if you searched for "CRA", it would get 0 results. Again, mind-blowing considering it was the recommended way to build apps with React.

Instead, it was replaced with a section driving you towards adopting Next. Which then had to be whittled away at and updated to include other options all the while the React team acted hostile to any criticism of it. You either used Next or you were shit out of luck.

> I have been outside the ecosystem for a year and looking at the shit show that is nextjs it seems things are even worse than before.

My thoughts about CRA aside, you don't have to use the frameworks (I still don't). And if you remove Next from the equation, things are actually pretty cool. Suspense is cool, and you'll have to rip React Query from my cold, dead hands.