I often read these threads on HN and they make me feel like that I am perhaps a horrible software engineer or just weird…

I _like_ building things with React.

I think it's really context dependent. If you've been banging your head against the wall working on a poorly architected React codebase for years, anything else probably feels like a breath of fresh air.

If you have a nice codebase with good separation of concerns (that everybody adheres to) and reasonable library choices, you'll be happy regardless of what framework you're using.

as long as you like it, keep using it! I wouldn't try to make generalizations from the HN or reddit bubbles.

I dislike all the warts of React, all the rules that fail at runtime... If hooks and the rules of them would be enforced at compile time, it could be great.

I prefer solid