I first tried react rigtt as it was shifting from class-based to functional components. I actually really liked the functional approach at first, but to me the promise was just pass in props and spit out html. No async components, no hooks, no data fetching, at best it just needs a way to attach even listeners once that fire custom events.

With all business logic outside the render tree it makes a ton of sense and really can be understood extremely fast. Props in, events out. Done. Today everything is a component, and components even have to understand whether they are in the server or browser and how to manage that handoff. It's such a massive dumpster fire of convention-as-a-solution.