I think I know how to code a faq I use react to create a tool for humans to help autonomous vehicles with react. Jsx has nothing to do with how easy it is to embed react in a host app. If you want to compare build systems, VueJS is also less practical and robust without its optional build system. This was used as a reason angularJS v1 would kill react and it’s a tired argument IMO
You are shifting goalposts. Obviously every framework is "similar" enough if your baseline is "can I ship something with it". Heck, there are production apps out there written in choo and hyperapp and mithril. They all work just fine.
The argument here is that there is a substantial difference of effort required for a specific subset of project types (migrations from large non-SPA).
And for the record, all the vdom libs I mentioned are on the same boat as react, because it's an inherent trait of vdom based architectures.
I'm the author of one of them, and while I can't speak about others, I can say that I was ok with requiring simultaneous migrations from server rendered templates to REST APIs for scratching my itch, even though I was aware of DOM-first systems (angular 1, knockout, vue and intercooler are examples of those)
Contrary to popular belief, a framework is not required to be perfectly suitable for every scenario under the sun. And that's fine, nobody needs to get all defensive over it.
