does anyone just make normal react apps anymore

Not sure how you define normal but Warpcast is "create react app" based.

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oh so no framework? I guess I kinda remember @deodad telling me you guys just use CRA with React Router

Yeah no frameworks. React router, react query. We have our internal data fetching patterns we replicate for all features and share it between mobile and web clients.