I'm still a React guy. I've also worked with Angular and Vue and toyed with Svelte.

People tend to compare these frameworks on things that don't matter - often it's performance. We used to compare React performance to AngularJs performance too, which was meaningless.

VDom is nice. Reactivity in signals is nice. Limiting rerenders is nice. But I choose frameworks because of developer ergonomics.

The killer feature for React was - 1. JSX - typing and auto-complete for components, colocation. 2. No direct dom access. (Good bye $element)

Most frameworks outside react still use templates. Even when they support JSX like syntax (aka vue 2.0) the default are templates. Templates are a no go for me. I use them for blogs or static websites, but applications are easier to make and maintain with actual javascript.

Luckily none of the other frameworks, even Angular, have rampant direct dom access anymore.

Hooks aren't a problem in general. It's just the useEffect hook. Unfortunately that's a big problem. That hook should never have existed. And it was clear from the start it'll be a pain from the limitations around it. It requires a mental model detached from everything people are used to and from other things around it.

When using React I usually just use MobX and everything just works.

MobX is signals library. In other words, you are already using the signals way of doing things if you mostly manage your state with MobX. I still use MobX as well if I think I can't use SolidJS.

SolidJs if you haven't looked has MobX-like tools built in, computed, autoruns and all the same tools, it triggers "renders" when one of the signals changes. In reality it doesn't have renders, because it's not based on VDOM, but it makes it look like it does.

However I like to keep my signal library separate, I would wish SolidJS had separate signals library I could use elsewhere as well.

Also SolidJS is big library and framework by now, it comes with risks if Ryan Carniato were ever to loose interest.

Edit, I also found that Ryan has created an example of MobX and JSX without React, it's a good way to demonstrate that React is not as important with signals libraries: https://github.com/ryansolid/mobx-jsx since you know MobX that example probably makes sense.