If Meta is removing non-essential employees I wonder if we could see the core react team having to leave at some point. That could be quite the shift for frontend work.
I'm sure Vercel would be happy to take full control of React by hiring the core team.
That would be amazing. I'd love to see React detached from Facebook's needs, which don't matter to most companies, and be taken over by the community instead. Honestly React is kinda useless without its ecosystem anyway, the vast majority of which is third party already.