You might be getting downvoted for saying it's an "atypical" way of using three.js. the pmnd.rs community (for example) is quite large.

I understand why people like the declarative nature of react three fiber, but it's quite unfortunate that it requires something like code sandbox to allow modification / working with it on the web- but that's by nature due to being react.

Vanilla three.js can be written surprisingly similarly, if you are disciplined about breaking things up into functions/components. And no react necessary / can embed a code editor and allow direct modification.