I would also add that even in that last scenario React can be a great tool, there are many solutions that use React but make fully static exports (Nextjs/astro/

I would also add that even in that last scenario React can be a great tool, there are many solutions that use React but make fully static exports (Nextjs/astro/gatsby/etc). Pre-rendering everything has downsides of course, but it doesn't get much faster than that. I think it's also a misconception that there is such a clear divide between app and content-oriented websites. Even the most content heavy websites, news sites for example, are highly interactive these days. Show me a popular content heavy site that doesn't have some sort of log in, interactive content, comment section, filtering, live blogs, alerts, notifications, search, and similar. You also have to take into account the advantages of pre-fetching links, and only fetching and replacing the content instead of doing full page re-renders. All of these great things you can do easily with React and a React framework of your choice. You can even go further and have a hybrid of statically exported pages, SSR, and some SPA like highly interactive parts, reusing the same exact components in all these strategies. All to say: React can be a great choice for a lot of use cases, also for content heavy websites.