I don't blame React per say. But with the proliferation of this technology I've noticed lots of things broken (links, history navigation, layout) that render a lot of things unusable to me and unfortunately I see very few upsides. I'm even willing to admit that React and SPAs are a great technology that enables some (few) use cases that were cumbersome before. But, it clearly seems rushed and applied everywhere with no discernable thought.
React was created because we wanted to have more complex web apps. That brings more complexity in development. Empirically, clearly we now see everywhere that most companies don't want to pay for the best version of their websites they can have.
I agree and part of that was delivered, I mentioned earlier that for some use cases SPA tech couldn't be better (well, it could and it keeps on improving and i'm in for it). But it seems that it washed away with good practices, with things that used to work and are utterly broken. Again, Im not blaming React, I just can't help but notice that the brokenness started around the same time React was adopted en masse.
React is great for what it does. But people also wants it where it does not fit (where server-rendered html is enough with vanilla JS). And then they go on to re-implement half the browser features. Badly.
