I would say the app I work on falls into the need for SPA, so I naturally love React. Hooks are where I actually jumped to React, from Marionette / Backbone and it's been love for me ever since. I don't do CSS in JS stuff, I stick to Tailwind for my needs there, so I guess we're in agreement on that.

But I'm so crazy fast in React + Tailwind that I really don't understand the frustration. Combined with Typescript, coding is just a joy for me these days.

Maybe I'm happy because I'm not jumping to each new framework trying to micro improve things, but honestly I'm not sure.

Coding the frontend in 2023 compared to 2013 feels like a piece of cake.