I've found that using things like React, for things as mundane as a blog or marketing site, just makes me sad. If my pursuit was to spend my time thinking about tricky issues — which it is — I get sad when to output doesn't necessitate the complexity I navigated to get there. Whatever I end up doing next, I hope it's something more interesting than webpages re-invented. Even working on purely design is way more challenging and interesting, and necessarily so, than frontend web "engineering". Things that do fall outside of this reduction are fully interactive applications like Mapbox studio that really weren't feasible before.