The point I'm trying to make is that people often think in absolute terms. The problem isn't thinking "React is good for SPAs" - it's thinking "React is good for all websites". I've come across a number of engineers now who genuinely think React is a good fit for e.g. totally static sites, "because it's fast".

I've come across similar persistent beliefs around NoSQL databases. Some teams wouldn't begin to consider an RDBMS for their primary data store, even while their data is heavily relational - because "SQL databases don't scale".

It's not that technologies are good or bad - it's the blind belief that a given technology is best for all situations. The hype drives the development. Not of the underlying tech itself, but in the teams using that tech.