I agree most with the attribution to React being the trailblazer and Svelte/others learning from it in many ways. React paved the way for component-driven devel

I agree most with the attribution to React being the trailblazer and Svelte/others learning from it in many ways. React paved the way for component-driven development (though to be fair you could credit Backbone Views or Angular Directives for starting the ball rolling), and that means it was always going to be the hardest to change. Frameworks like Vue, Preact, Svelte and others benefited from React existing and causing them to ask the questions they did (how can we make this simpler? is it possible to have the feel of component-driven layouts without the VDOM?)