This one in particular always seems to be pulled out by people advocating for yet another new framework. I don't do much frontend these days...for like a decade now, but as a mostly outsider who occasionally dabbles, React has been a constant for a long time now. The latest stuff in Next looks fantastic, in the real world we were never able to build anything nearly as nice as what is possible these days. There's a lot of historical revisionism and rose-colored glasses being worn these days, but the truth is that most web apps have always been garbage, and that will probably never change either.