> That project was depreciated and the popularity of the Next.js site framework for react projects (plus I certainly assume heavy lobbying from Vercel) pushed t

> That project was depreciated and the popularity of the Next.js site framework for react projects (plus I certainly assume heavy lobbying from Vercel) pushed the react docs to officially suggest create-next as the new starting point. It seems like Vercel had enough money and hype to lure react devs away from facebook to work for them. I see this as the biggest reason why react is pushing users towards vercel. Further, Vercel was able to work very closely with the react dev team when developing react server components, giving vercel a first-to-market advantage and a headstart on vendor lock-in.