I think one of the main reason to pick React is because, even if it's slower than you'd like, it evolves and adapt, so you can hope you're not going to have to rewrite your entire app with a different library/framework in a year or two.

I've worked on a rewrite of an old AngularJS and it felt like such a waste of time. It didn't matter what the new target of the rewrite was, the fact that we had to was very painful.