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I think this is largely because people are writing JS on the frontend, and it's easier to do SSR with the code you've already got, i.e. render JS on the backend too.
That said there is a movement for a more flexible style, e.g. https://htmx.org/
Exactly.
And if one really needs a slimmer version of React, there's always Preact [1] which is 3k-4k gzipped and has pretty much the same API.
Of course, in real life the 130k of React is far from a problem. The React code is (more often than not) dwarfed by the application code itself.
[1] http://preactjs.com
