React is set to become much less complex as a user once the react compiler is in place and if you use server components/actions; in my product we’ve already basically eliminated 95% of useEffect calls, almost all data fetching, client side state management with the current gen tools, and once the compiler is in then all memoization will be gone too.

You still end up with the bloated bundle size but with one of the more modern react alternatives you can eliminate that too. So at least for me, I don’t mind the build complexity for the power I get; especially now that node itself is supporting typescript, the build side is getting simpler to set up as well.