I think there's many advantages to it. Whole one company might be stuck in slower webpack/Babel hell, nextjs, remix, those that don't let the developer muck wit

I think there's many advantages to it. Whole one company might be stuck in slower webpack/Babel hell, nextjs, remix, those that don't let the developer muck with the toolchain have been able to switch out for much faster & smaller bundlers. CRA is in a decent position to do similar.