Genuine question: what would you recommend using? Both companies I worked for in the early 2010's ended up recreating their own (subpar) implementations of wha

Genuine question: what would you recommend using? Both companies I worked for in the early 2010's ended up recreating their own (subpar) implementations of what React does. While I do agree the bar to get started on the web is too high, I feel like it's never been so low? React and frameworks like Next.js have been great to use. Much better than what I was using back then. I don't have experience with e.g. Laravel/Ruby on Rails though. Are these any easier to work with?