Kudos on pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone. I think you were still thinking in terms of React though, with statements like "I also craved the ability to

Kudos on pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone. I think you were still thinking in terms of React though, with statements like "I also craved the ability to write small simple functions for making components". Maybe explore a template based approach instead, with the help of a library like Mustache.js so that you're not overwhelmed by having to do it all the first time.