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Unpopular opinion: @reactjs edition Bring it on

React doesn’t include enough out of the box, and the lack of any official sanctioned recommendations increases ecosystem fragmentation and actively harms the ecosystem.

It’s seemingly unpopular among the React team

Not really. I think we agree with this. However we also believe that you can’t deliver a whole solution if you don’t actively use it. A model that seems to work is promoting full-box setups like Next.js and Gatsby and working closely with them.

I think there's an implicit assumption here: that one company makes/uses a solution and that company needs to use all of it. A less single-company-centric view of core development lets people work on what they need and share the rest.

This article from DHH back when Merb (the project I maintained that competed with Rails) merged into Rails is a good explanation of the philosophy I adhere to. https://dhh.dk/posts/36-work-on-what-you-use-and-share-the-rest …