> React is the literal worst of all the modern JavaScript frameworks and yet that's what everybody insists on using.
That's rather amusing. "Am I wrong? No it's the rest of the world!"
How are these other frameworks so far ahead? I've used a couple of frameworks and React has been the easiest from the big ones to wrap my head around.
I never "learned" react because the "create react app" would literally never install for me in the early days. There were literally so many dependencies I never got it to build as a novice, I tried svelte everything worked and I got to spend that time building.
I can only speak for Svelte, in Svelte 3/4 it was so dead simple that I built my first basic webapp with 0 javascript, css or html experience in 3 days.
By week 2 I was trying out different UI libraries and css frameworks, that part was super rough though, back then lots of compat issues.
Use Vite. It was a misstep by the React team to continue to recommend create-react-app long after it was deprecated, but Vite is what's commonly used today.