You can absolutely use web components with react... you just have to use `<lower-case-component>` for webcomponents, since a capital first character will trigger JSX transforms.

So you can use, for example this set of components with a react application and get some of the best of both worlds. The only down side is attributes in web components aren't passable via the markup, only via DOM reference.

I happen to like react as-is, but Vue is probably much closer to web components and could see Vue becoming a compile to web components option sooner than later.