> you’ve fallen into a pit of despair (tech debt) and have no ecosystem to leverage your way out of it or people you can hire that want anything to do with it
It sounds like you're saying that the way out of tech debt is to install more 3rd-party packages and/or hire more people, I hope you meant something else.
I use and recommend React at work because of the hiring thing, but for my own personal projects I stick with Mithril. With JSX it's not hard to switch back and forth between the two, at least with TypeScript there to tell me when I accidentally use HTML in my React JSX, e.g. the class attribute when React wants the className property. (With Mithril you use attributes that map exactly to HTML attributes)
It sounds like you're saying that the way out of tech debt is to install more 3rd-party packages and/or hire more people, I hope you meant something else.
I use and recommend React at work because of the hiring thing, but for my own personal projects I stick with Mithril. With JSX it's not hard to switch back and forth between the two, at least with TypeScript there to tell me when I accidentally use HTML in my React JSX, e.g. the class attribute when React wants the className property. (With Mithril you use attributes that map exactly to HTML attributes)