Do you just use document.createElement(), getElementById(), and friends? I've written lots of web apps that just used those. But I've also jumped into React a c

Do you just use document.createElement(), getElementById(), and friends? I've written lots of web apps that just used those. But I've also jumped into React a couple times to learn if it's better or faster or whatever. I generally think it's a reasonable approach for a template style web app—ie, when you need to build a whole lot of html nodes that interact with each other in the way a complicated ui does. But I do find I can get stuck trying to reason about some of the weird reactivity stuff with useState() and useEffect(). I kinda chalk that up to me being not an expert, but it also feels like a bit of an impedance mismatch with the language itself. But I don't think React necessary for _every_ app and it really depends on what kind of apps you are making. Certainly you can do the original style of app where the templating is on the server and any js is just to hook up already existing nodes. The js community has more or less moved away from that "rails" style of app years ago…