No, they're component-oriented. View suggests you're doing MVC or similar. You don't need an M & C with React -- you will likely need to add react-router, but react + react-router (or preact + preact-router) is all the 'framework' you need for most apps.
And what I meant by react being a view library is that react by itself only handles the UI part and you need to get additional libraries to handle stuff like routing and talking with the server. This stuff is provided by mithril itself.
Well, you (or the author) are comparing it to React in your title, so of course people assume that you're targeting React devs.
Now you're saying that it's something different?
I tried both Mithril and React and found Mithril to be simpler than React as it 'gets out of the way'.
I invite you to read this for more detailed comparison :
https://preactjs.com/