I see what you mean but this has no relation to the React release policy. React itself moves with a pace that should be easy to follow.
Community projects like React Router move faster but this is not something the React team can help you with. If you don’t want to keep up with the breaking changes there, you can wait for the project to stabilize. For example, you can use Backbone Router which hasn’t changed for years.
Finally, if you use something as experimental as hot reloading, please expect it to be tricky to set up until it’s part of official React. This is very experimental territory and there is so much work involved in just making it work that making it stable and easy is not a priority yet.
Community projects like React Router move faster but this is not something the React team can help you with. If you don’t want to keep up with the breaking changes there, you can wait for the project to stabilize. For example, you can use Backbone Router which hasn’t changed for years.
Finally, if you use something as experimental as hot reloading, please expect it to be tricky to set up until it’s part of official React. This is very experimental territory and there is so much work involved in just making it work that making it stable and easy is not a priority yet.