"Long time" React user, still use it on new projects, but I was looking at Vuejs in depth a little bit yesterday, and it augments JS and HTML in a much simpler way. That simplicity - to me - is reminiscent of jQuery to a certain extent. I'm sure it has its own faults, but not having to write a webpack config or download some sort of transpiling monstrocity for once was a nice change.

I think I'd probably agree with you on the "ship it ASAP" premise, but Vue could be a real contender in that category as well.