I agree that React and all the sweetness it contains does have this effect when working on a large - or simply dynamic - application.
But all of the benefits of the React Virtual DOM don't really come into play if the content is static (like most WordPress sites). If no data is changing, you don't need observables to automatically update views, and the built in underscore.js templating will do a fine job.
But all of the benefits of the React Virtual DOM don't really come into play if the content is static (like most WordPress sites). If no data is changing, you don't need observables to automatically update views, and the built in underscore.js templating will do a fine job.