This, 100%. I love doing UX/UI work but everyone (I've worked with) is always pushing to use React for everything and it has led me to moving to more of a back-

This, 100%. I love doing UX/UI work but everyone (I've worked with) is always pushing to use React for everything and it has led me to moving to more of a back-end / full-stack role over the last few years. A job I recently left was building a B2B site where customers could log in and order files that they needed printed & delivered. The back-end was going to be Laravel but instead of simply using Blade (Laravel's PHP templating engine) we had to make a RESTful API so we could use NextJS and React. IMHO it was beyond overkill for a site where users would basically just be checking boxes and clicking an "order" button. I just assume nowadays that whenever anyone pushes for React, NextJS, or any AWS Lambda based over-engineered auto scaling microservice solution to a simple problem they're just looking to pad their resume before jumping to their next job.