Yeah I don't actually like ReasonML and don't think it should exist. OCaml's syntax is great and easy to use.
Ocaml is a seriously underrated language and would be my goto choice for developing a native or webapp.
I would still use Scala for backend development, though. The JVM is kind of a drag, though.
It basically should have been a new project and have had nothing to do with bucklescript.
The worst part is that the owner of bucklescript even owned some properties that had the name "reasonml" in it (like reasonml.org and the reasonml discord group, which weren't owned by the Reason team) and then he pointed all those thing to Rescript. Just the confusion did some serious damage to Reason.
My advice is to stick to OCaml.