The point of a framework is to provide structure - a uniform pattern. A shared language. A way of thinking about the problem space. Maybe a shared set of chunks in congitive science parlance. I think how you handle composition, state, network, routing, etc is also fundamentally a part of the framework - it's not just the view layer.
My take on this is vamp: https://dlants.me/vamp.html
I've been using it with joy on all of my side projects, and feel quite miserable when I return to react.