This is my experience too, looking through online communities based around React and it's tooling. The vast majority of people in these communities work with a

This is my experience too, looking through online communities based around React and it's tooling. The vast majority of people in these communities work with a few too many abstractions and a bit too much tooling, and are content just auto-piloting through their day to day, praying to god that the trendy stack doesn't change too soon. Some people learn re-usable code patterns and concepts, the majority just learn APIs.