As someone who has used Vue full time for the past... going on 7 years, and before that used a probably-little-remembered framework called Mercury,* I feel like

As someone who has used Vue full time for the past... going on 7 years, and before that used a probably-little-remembered framework called Mercury,* I feel like I'm missing something. I wonder how many of the issues people have with React are due to it not being built on a state management library - like Vue is, and Mercury was. The rendering is whatever. Templates, JSX, it doesn't really matter. Mercury used hyperscript and we got by just fine. But state management is critical, and React seems to leave it completely up to you. Vue added a hooks-like API. While I haven't used it in anger, I've toyed with it. And it sidesteps some of the weird React hooks caveats... because of Vue's reactivity system. Huh. *With a brief interlude using the original Angular, which I did not understand then and still do not understand looking back from today.