I seriously don&#x27;t understand the issue here.<p>I find the overhead completely negligible. I&#x27;ve worked on many React apps. I&#x27;ve worked on innumerable apps in other, different frameworks, tools, etc. too. I still find my React stack (I say &quot;my&quot; because I&#x27;m sure my stack is different than yours in one way or another) to be the best solution, and this debate to be tedious.<p>That said, I feel like every ecosystems works this way: Complaints about lack of good tools&#x2F;solutions, myriad tools&#x2F;solutions are built, then there are complaints about the overabundance of tools and complexity of the ecosystem, so everyone abandons whatever the status quo is, and then...back to square one.