I gotta be honest, I agree with this - `this` was something that bit you once, and you quickly learned to `.bind()` (or use the 3 line polyfill for it...).

I find my older pure JS codebases so, so much easier to go back and remember what was going on than some of the React stuff I've had to interact with in the past 5+ years - and I say this as someone who has written, released, and taught React.

The problem for me is, I think, I'm not sure you can do better than React. You'll either wind up with some complicated beast from hell (Angular) or veer off into performance-benchmark-overvaluing (Svelte).