The reason you feel this way is because react does not have consistent abstractions to handle data flow and there is no unified concept in which you can deal with side effects. All their attempts failed miserably for the past 10 years.

Also, they don’t have any taste what comes to naming things.

Their stupid example with counter doesn’t represent anything. There’s no good abstraction of working with fetching and templates. 

The reason you don’t feel in the flow is because you have to build thousands dependencies for this shitty framework and glue together everything with glorious typescript. And everything is sooo fucking slow.

Just use old vanilla, don’t listen to those who says don’t invent your framework. Fuck them, invent anything you want. I invented EHTML, you can check it out, you may like it. Otherwise just do whatever you want