I did love React for freeing me from AngularJS and I fully bought in its idiosyncrasies.

But now I just use it to get paid cause it's the standard and I know it well. In my experience keeping a large React codebase simple requires some skills that are clearly not universal.

If I have the choice I use Svelte because reactivity is much easier with it and it includes most of what I need to focus on building things.