Anyone as fed up as I am with ReactJS always not working properly?
Rewriting your modified config file! What other program does that? It's one thing when the config file is controlled with some GUI in the Options setting and then a file is written on your behalf. But in this case you are the curator of this file, and then when, the 'yarn run start' or 'yarn run build' are run, sometimes your changes are overwritten.
Changes to the ways things are done. So you go searching to find out how to add absolute paths because I am borrowing things from another project, and I see paths are the way to do this. Oh but guess what that's not allowed anymore.
Then there is baseURL, which doesn't have any effect whatsoever.
Maybe a project that implements JSX but is not the same people behind ReactJS and has a team committed to not changing how things work just because might be a good idea. I would welcome seeing a project like that.