This is my experience as well. Sometimes the conventions are frustrating, and particular to Rails I still don't know how to handle the front end well aside from jQuery (how are you doing it? Stimulus + Turbolinks, or...?), but is it ever refreshing to just focus on your product instead of all the tooling surrounding developing your product.
If you need a lot of JS, Vue is a nice choice. You can drop it in for just a single page of your site if you need heavy JS on one part but still want Rails on the rest. Or you can go full-on Vue front end with Rails in API mode, or anywhere between.
