Well a few reasons. My react-bytes repo was created before I understood the value of workspaces and shared dependencies. Lately it's been more and more work to keep deps up to date and I wanted to use lighter tooling like Vite.
Turns out, create-react-app doesn't work so well with monorepos. So I decided now was as good a time as any to create...another repo...and rebuild things with the end in mind.