IME there’s a crazy amount of strawmanning that goes on with these “anti-react” technologies/cults. Yes of course your html and css static site doesn’t need react. But most of us who are actual software devs/engineers aren’t working on static websites like that!
I think this is a little gatekeep-y. Building static sites is real engineering. When you're building a site that scales in content (for e.g. one that contains thousands of pages that are updated regularly) you need to really know what you're doing. A CMS can help you manage your content, but you need to decide how to build your pages from it. There are things in the React space that can handle a lot of the complexity (for e.g. Next.js on Vercel with ISR), but you need an engineer to make the right trade offs.
IME there’s a crazy amount of strawmanning that goes on with these “anti-react” technologies/cults. Yes of course your html and css static site doesn’t need react. But most of us who are actual software devs/engineers aren’t working on static websites like that!