unpopular opinion: React is the framework of the Woke. Its totally inverted. And inversion is language of demons.
I'm a backend guy, I just go with what my frontend guy does. If I had it my way it would be vanilla css with jquery 💀
the pretty front end plugins and ui's for nextjs are incredibly seductive, i'll give ya that. hivetalk.org is 100% just vanilla css nodejs 😂. there's a reason why i went this way. less headache, more time for biz logic output
i hear ya i'm also backend primarily; just pushed into front end due to "must have stuff" working :D