Large companies and startups are both looking for React programmers. Large companies can afford to pay competitive salaries, and the wheels for hiring can move slowly. Many startups can't compete on salary, thus they have to settle for devs who don't win the React competitions. So maybe think of looking at smaller companies.
I feel like I wrote my question in a way that indicates a lack of React positions, but it's more about that most companies are looking for only React developers, and everyone else seems to be react developers. I don't struggle with React, it's pretty easy actually, and I have a small amount of professional experience writing it, but because it can boil down to basically who completes the test and who completes it fastest, I don't even know if it's worth trying to compete with everyone who's most likely been doing React exclusively since they got out of bootcamp.
