No, not exactly. I learnt JavaScript in the very early days, when we called it "Dynamic HTML". I mostly built very raw non-frameworked sites until a couple of years ago. I actually found learning Vue (~2 years ago) kind of difficult because of how inside out everything was, and I was still trying to picture what click handlers were being attached where, etc etc.

I was halfway through building a site when I switched to Vue. It ended up reducing the number of lines of code by 30-40%, and made the interactions much simpler to reason about.

Now that I know Vue, I think it's a vastly better way to develop than without it.