It does sound to my like all of these issues would be the same no matter what library/framework you chose. Working “against the grain”, choosing third party libraries, managing coding conventions and dealing with code bloat is common to all technologies. Unless all these points are adressed, you’re unlikely to achieve success with any platform.
I agree. This story could have been written any time in the last couple of decades, but replace React and .NET with any two wildly divergent software development ecosystems/paradigms/communities. I could tell you stories about an insurance company where I worked and how Java on Solaris (or was it z/OS?) and VB on Windows 95 fought to the death in a cage match. The were many programmer casualties.
