I am not so sure I agree. React is anything but easy when getting started. It takes work and an agreement to learn a certain amount of "modern" JS+Web tooling.

I am not so sure I agree. React is anything but easy when getting started. It takes work and an agreement to learn a certain amount of "modern" JS+Web tooling. If you come in with strong engineering and dev background, but not a lot of knowledge about modern web libs and frameworks it can be more than a small chore. I do agree, once you are into it, its design philosophy has a lot of appeal.