I think, as of now many plugins are introduced with CRA apps, and react-scripts 3.4 is also updated with many capabilities. So, for everyone who just needs boilerplate to start - CRA is fairly good to use.
And if you are using redux then there is also a way to have redux boilerplate with it by running following command.
npx create-react-app my-app --template redux
I'm not defending CRA, this is just my opinion 😀 .