It depends on your use case. I wrote many web apps w/ frameworks like Django before migrating to React several years ago. The point I wanted to add was, when I started using React, (after the very initial hump) it felt like a breath of fresh air. I didn't feel complicated or confusing, it felt like it was de-complicating everything I was doing. My point is, if it doesn't feel that way, you may not have the problems React solves well and probably aren't missing out.