The thing that these young and/or inexperienced developers don't understand is: Frameworks are not your friend. Framework projects are not created with your benefit in mind. Frameworks are created as an opening salvo so that some developers or organization can gain a foothold in the landscape and start collecting money from consulting contracts. The reason there are 1,000 React alternatives is not "people like signals more than hooks", the real root cause is 1,000 people want to steal market share from React so they can get paid as a consultant. "I like signals more than hooks" folks are just useful, predictable pieces of the landscape to be manipulated in this scheme.
Indeed, a framework written to be used for a project has a limited amount of time where it's your friend. Until the big 2.0 rewrite comes out and they changed the API completely, and the clock starts counting down to the rapidly approaching 3.0 release where they will rewrite the API, before two weeks later announcing 4.0 alpha 1...
