So, what would "authoritative" docs look like, given those wide varieties of use cases? The closest thing there is at the moment is the Create-React-App tool, which is deliberately opinionated about setting up a build tool system with certain behaviors, but is otherwise unopinionated about all other libraries and file structures you might choose to pull in.
The core React team is pretty small - currently like 7 people. They have to split their time between actually working on the library, and dealing with Facebook's internal needs. On top of that, the way Facebook uses React is going to be different than the way much of the community uses React, due to Facebook's unique and specific infrastructure.
For lists: yeah, there's some other useful lists out there. I actually point to them in the "Community Resources" category of my list. There was an issue discussing a possible new "Learning Resources" section for the React docs as part of the docs revamp ( https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/7117 ), which bogged down a bit due to concerns about endorsing specific libraries. There's currently an open issue regarding further additions to the docs that looks like a request for the community to contribute sections on specific topics ( https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/8060 ).
As for my own list: I put multiple hours into updating it every week, between reading articles, evaluating them, and categorizing them. I won't say I've read every word of every article, but I've definitely looked at each and every article in the list and determined that it's relevant and of good quality. Beyond that, I'd say that the nearly 6000 stars are a reasonable indicator that a lot of people are finding my list useful.
With the React ecosystem, it's basically equivalent to the Django template system having documentation, but the rest of the info being scattered across dozens of personal blogs.
The React team, being the face of the ecosystem, would do well to point newcomers to a list such as yours.
I am all for diversity of approaches, but there is no good starting point. So I spent days searching, comparing, etc.
Your list is great. It is not the only one. How do I know that yours is "correct"? The only answer is comparing which links show up frequently on various lists. That is so much more time consuming that having an official list or tutorial.