There's a world of options away from React today that have those features. We can't pretend only React has them.
There are a gazillion of options that resolve the same problems: Vue, Svelte, Solid, Lit, etc.
Backbone was born as better code organization on top of jQuery and CoffeeScript. It never attempted to solve these issues.
Haha, coffeescript was so hot for a minute
He had a very prolific year.
React looked great when I first used it for something really small. It looked horrific when I used it on a massive project with ridiculous amounts of data and tons of middleware. Although the real horror was the useEffect spaghetti. Vue keeps looking reasonable in every project I encounter it in. Even when people use it poorly, it's never Vue itself that's the problem. Well, maybe when people start working around the reactivity. That can get really bad.
But to keep in the good graces of our thought leader overlords, let's start solid or svelte.