React's marketing (such as it is) has pushed the "it's just a library" and "it's just the V in MVC" hard. I think folks can be forgiven for thinking those notio

React's marketing (such as it is) has pushed the "it's just a library" and "it's just the V in MVC" hard. I think folks can be forgiven for thinking those notions won't entirely fail to describe the real world experience and use of React in ~100% of actual projects (and even more so now that ditching legitimately-actually-quite-portable Redux for hook-centric logic is trendy) and being a more than a little surprised and perplexed when they do.