I'd say "no". Why? Premature optimization (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrematureOptimization).
Consider fictional a application called Amazoon, where the "database" was the slowest piece of the app, e.g. registering a new user or searching inventory was taking ~2 mins per query. Changing the "View" layer from HTML to Angular, React, or <insert latest view-engine here> will have a minimal impact at best simply because the bottleneck is elsewhere...
Your shiny new "rectified" Amazoon app will go from 2 mins and 20 secs per query (old app), to 2 mins and 15 secs (v2.0 <- still lame, boo!).
Bad approach, bad results.
Alternatively,
Ps. I love "React" so Bill still gets points for his fix. ;-)