I'm certain that this would have happened with any other framework mentioned as well and pointing towards React being the issue is just searching for a scapegoat where there is none
The problem starts in html, css, javascript and the browser as a development platform. React tries to patch over those issues, and creates some new issues.
People claim other frameworks solve the same issues without introducing any significant new problems. I'll remain skeptic until I see a couple of huge full-functionality apps in those frameworks that manage to keep a clean codebase and good performance.
I've seen too many times people "solving" frontend development, most of the time that solution just amounts to documents linked to each other, and avoiding complex forms and interactivity, but if you just do linked documents, frontend development was solved in the 90s, and you don't need javascript at all.
