The mental model for a react component is very much simplified and consistent. You declare how your view looks like, wire up the state and user interaction stu

The mental model for a react component is very much simplified and consistent. You declare how your view looks like, wire up the state and user interaction stuff and you have a self contained puece of code. People doing UI stuff, before the advent of React usually highly appreciate it because they know how much work it takes to actually build a usable UI in vanilla JS.