I still like React and unlike many others I even like the newer stuff like RSCs. At the same time, it is hard to shake the feeling that React's core team and associated personalities have lost sight of the changing frontend landscape, and have become disconnected from software design principles. Instead they seem to be chasing some totalizing purity where everything can be handled in the React "model."

IMO, React repeatedly nerfing external stores and encouraging users more and more to shove their application state into React components has exposed what a poor model of reactivity React actually offers.