I doubt that. React wasn't stable until 2015, and wasn't mainstream until 2016.
> And it only got worse and the overengineering to make it looks fast in the first load is not worth it as modern JS frameworks are faster than React out-of-the-box.
Again, Next.js != React; the former builds on the latter, it doesn't replace it nor does it claim to be the same thing. I'm not sure why you keep conflating the two.
> That's not what stackoverflow's Insights says[0]. Looks like a free fall for me.
Perhaps you shouldn't bury the lede here. I'm also not entirely sure what your argument is, or why you hold such strong emotions without making your opinions very clear.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=reactjs%2Cnex...