> React is still easier, but it comes at a maintainability tax because you have to keep upgrading to new react versions and port to new react wrapper framework

> React is still easier, but it comes at a maintainability tax because you have to keep upgrading to new react versions and port to new react wrapper framework versions if you want to keep a codebase in active development. There has been one breaking version of React (the recent React 18) in it's 8 years of history. Upgrading React versions is a non-issue. Wrapper frameworks like next.js can come with a much higher maintenance cost, but you don't need to use those to use React (and I think most people don't).