You bet. But if you grok that simple example, you can see why teams that switch to Svelte, Solid, Preact, or Vue feel "refreshed". This mental burden of trying to figure out what has to be put where just...goes away. The React model tries to bend JavaScript to conform to it's render cycle rather than designing to JavaScript's unique object-functional strengths.

Thanks. A while ago I sensed the churn dangerzone around React and I refused to get on any React projects. I feel lucky that I had that option. I did some Angular projects (i think it was version 8-9) and to me it seemed okay at the time. The project evolved nicely and structurally it organized itself quite well. But there is a ton of boiler plate there as well and I’d avoid Angular in the future.

Im doing mostly back-end work these days to keep my sanity.