Prove it.

The community never had expectations. That's not how libraries work. I built with many other teams a fantastic learning platform used by many millions of students on a daily basis in React 14-15 and none of us ever felt like it couldn't do enough. Everything else from 16 onwards is like cool from a coding nerd perspective, but who really asked for it? Few. Don't even get me started on hooks.

Suggesting to move on to something else makes me wonder if you ever worked on React projects where over 50 engineers work on the same application. You don't seem to account for any of the $ cost and hassle a version change represents for large projects.

Apparently somehow in your mind calling something code-manure translates to me being unable to "comprehend" the complexity. Trust me, I'm more than able to, otherwise I wouldn't dare call it code-manure.

You say a library doesn't look for a common denominator to make everyone happy? Kab, come on, you just said the community this and the community that. How do you think a library becomes popular? By not catering to as many developers as possible? Do you know when a library or framework is going in the wrong direction? When developers who were happy with it start turning against it.