Angular and React didn’t solve the same requirements, they were just somewhat workable stand-ins while Aura was jank. And the tooling is heavy, but I’ll repeat

Angular and React didn’t solve the same requirements, they were just somewhat workable stand-ins while Aura was jank. And the tooling is heavy, but I’ll repeat, it’s all miles better than it was back then. We traded janky and sparse for a full suite of pretty great tooling that can be a resource hog. Remembering the relative simplicity of the old stuff as “better” overall is just rose-tinted glasses.