I was in the same position. I made a resolve to learn enough to get by (so far) and have done so using the Next.js framework. It uses React but gives you soooo

I was in the same position. I made a resolve to learn enough to get by (so far) and have done so using the Next.js framework. It uses React but gives you soooo much 'out of the box'. It also makes doing CSS really easy. The other part is that I learned by copying. I found an app I liked and wanted to make my own version of, and then component by component I copied it, often using the browser inspector to understand how the CSS worked.