I've been mixing React with static exports from WordPress. It's unbelievable to say that I actually like this solution after spending years and years with PHP,

I've been mixing React with static exports from WordPress. It's unbelievable to say that I actually like this solution after spending years and years with PHP, custom JS front ends, then jQuery and the backend frameworks. React continues to get better and is great for highly interactive and customized experiences. Browsers are also making it more usable so it's just up to the front end devs to make sure history state and other stuff is accounted for. WordPress continues to be terrible but accessible to the masses for your landing page and blog stuff. That means your design and content team don't get bogged down in the app dev process and you don't have React slinging fixed/static content. They can just bash stuff around in WordPress and export the static pages for a quick deploy.