I think far more people get lost trying to learn the libraries than grow an app to a size where pure react too painful. First time I used react I hated it, bec

I think far more people get lost trying to learn the libraries than grow an app to a size where pure react too painful. First time I used react I hated it, because everything was done through flux, want to add a field to a form. Now you need to update 4 different files and create 8 methods. Not to mention interacting with non-react components in a react way can be super painful. It was insane. Second time I dropped all of the libraries. Only used react, and any time I needed to use a non-react component I wrapped it myself, and many times did very unreacty things like use methods to do a lot of interaction. And I loved it. Everything is so much easier. I can focus on solving the user's problems, and not my react problem. The apps weren't huge, but they weren't small either. 3 months of work for 3 devs full time.