As someone whose career success was very tied to React, I will say that "quiet quitting React" (or, nonjudgmentally, realizing my longterm interests were broade

As someone whose career success was very tied to React, I will say that "quiet quitting React" (or, nonjudgmentally, realizing my longterm interests were broader and taking action on it) has been one of the hardest career transitions I've ever had to do. The money and social validation and temptation to stay within the React-industrial-complex (explaining React to developers who just want the default thing is a very very profitable business) was very strong and I've had private conversations with many folks who got into it not having fully examined their beliefs and now feel trapped in the local optimum of React specialization as a career (which is then a self reinforcing loop as companies see it as a recruiting advantage, leading to devs optimizing for it because companies advertise for it, etc). React is doing innovative, groundbreaking stuff with React 18 and beyond. I've done several talks on them and will use React when I have those needs. but other folks (I went with svelte in 2019, but i'll also acknowledge qwik, solid, and vuejs) are doing cool stuff too, and most people are usually not building facebook. Ecosystem for React is strong but size isn't everything; once you identify the 10-20 things everyone shouldn't DIY you're basically done (I ended on this at last week's Svelte Summit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8jkJTWacow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8jkJTWacow)