It is after all a full template. Looking over the deps, including reactstrap is a bit extra baggage, but overall it's everything that you'd ultimately need to make an application in the ecosystem to do what it's offering, seems robust.
Yeah curious why more people didn't notice that strange phrasing. Not sure what the point of it was. Did they make more mistakes and therefore fix more of them?
They actually seemed to have touched on something like that briefly, saying they'd come back to it in their android segment. Still not sure if it's sincere but if it is, it's a good set of steps.
This is such a poorly done react app, you can not take this as the current state of react. If you've never seen a mature react app, and have at best checked out a few blogs that try to compare it to other frameworks, then you have not been exposed to nearly enough to make a real decision and are throwing around empty opinions.
Yes, I believe that is definitely what the author was going for. If you don't pay market rate for development, you're 9 out of 10 times going to regret it.