I think you've nailed it. The suitability to small projects particularly tickles me, since most of my web development projects are small — I'm not a web developer by trade, it's rather a side effect of the actual work I do.

I think another big selling point of Vue is that the core functionality you fundamentally need is all _in_ Vue. There are third-party components out there, but they are really ancillary, much like third-party Angular 1 components. Fundamentally, the core Vue library is all you need to know. React, in contrast, is really a many-headed beast with tons of separate libraries that go into what could be reasonably deemed "core" functionality.