At the pace the javascript ecosystem is going, by next year it will be almost all of them. Create react app for a new default project pulls in 1400 packages, 300 MB in size, just to put a hello world page on a screen. That nobody thinks this is absolutely bonkers drives me absolutely bonkers.

Plenty of people think it's bonkers and the informed frontend perspective is to not use CRA anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m14f0ZzMyY

Informed developers don't use CRA anymore.