Sorry, you missed the point. My life is better overall because React solves a ton of problems other frameworks are battling with. However, we still have to rewrite this same widgets over and over - energy that may be better spent elsewhere if that were possible. These innovations are not iterative from this point of view - they re-level the field. My point was: "there has got to be a better way of dealing with these basic components"

fwiw, I thought this little project was really cool.