In reply to Ryan McCue.
I wouldn’t call creating a half-hearted view abstraction “special care”. Gutenberg has already moved forward using React APIs and it sounds like the decision to remove the abstraction layer has already been made. See:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/876

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/893

I’m all for using React, but I agree with Slava. This decision was already made through the backchannels. The open public discussion is purely for optics.