Modern React (with functional components and hooks) is actually pretty easy to learn. I picked it up in my mid-30s with minimal JS experience (coming from the P

Modern React (with functional components and hooks) is actually pretty easy to learn. I picked it up in my mid-30s with minimal JS experience (coming from the PHP world) and became a full-time frontend dev after that. Vite makes the tooling a breeze, but eventually you'll probably want to learn Next.js too (which adds various routing, rendering, and caching layers on top of React). It never hurts to have one more tool in your toolbelt. Even if you end up hating React, knowing it will allow you to get jobs that currently use it and then you'll have the vocabulary and insider understanding that will allow you to advocate for a different framework or language if you strongly prefer it. For what it's worth, I see more and more people tiring of Next.js and considering much simpler solutions like Astro, with or without React.