I can relate to that. I got "lucky" that I had to learn React in a few weeks, and while I grumbled a lot in the beginning, I came to love it (not js packages ec

I can relate to that. I got "lucky" that I had to learn React in a few weeks, and while I grumbled a lot in the beginning, I came to love it (not js packages ecosystem though, that simply sucks). Huge thanks to my coworkers at the time who took me through the speed course! You need to look at ES6 as a completely new language, almost completely unrelated to JS. Once you learn it, React is easy - and genius in its simplicity. I can't imagine building even a medium sized webapp without some way of building UI declaratively. Maintaining a classical jQuery / native JS webapp is a nightmare, while these frameworks break up the problem into manageable pieces. Highly recommend biting the bullet and learning one of them, it really is worth it (not necessarily React, there are lots of others too).