@tante haha yes. I think my partner feels this right now. She learned vanilla js and is now a trainee. Except they don't use vanilla but node with transpiled code. Except they use all that in reactjs. Except they use all that in nextjs.

Is is quite convoluted unfortunately. I am not sure there is really "that" one way to go. It kind of depends what you want to develop and then you can try one of the more popular options 🙈