That was a selling point of all the prior (and subsequent) frameworks as well. In fact, that's the selling point of htmx over react too. Opinions vary about how well any of these things achieve that objective.
Before switching to React in 2015 I worked with ExtJS and Backbone, and both of them were much harder to reason about. Oh, and GWT too, that was a nightmare.
I guess different people have different affinity and skills for reasoning about different things. If I knew I'd have to work on react for the rest of my career, I'd find a different line of work, specifically because of how difficult it is for me. Things I've found easier to understand than React include AlpineJS, Solid, Vue, Knockout, and vanilla imperative JS. The only thing I recall ever finding more mind-boggling than React has been Sharepoint-as-an-application-platform.
