I have done both Vue and React projects. I like React philosophically. But my coworkers, who were keen to learn react, struggled conceptually and I ended up doing a lot of the React work. Then on another project we trialed Vue which worked out far simpler for people to learn and I also find I'm far quicker developing things using Vue. So while I'd tend to recommend Vue, I'd encourage people to trial both on something not too trivial before settling on either.

I can relate to Brad Frost's issues picking up React. Vue, on the other hand, took me a day to wrap myself around and pick up with some certainty.