I wish you were right, but I don’t think you are. Here’s a link to the thread where I give my take on this.
I have tons on Blaze code in production, and would love to use something like ViewModel, I just can’t after the recent MDG announcements. I guess if I get the bandwidth I’ll slowly start migrating to React sometime after 1.3 drops. 
And it’s not just React, but the entire Meteor stack will morph into a stack that compliments React – basically a modified Facebook stack of sorts.
As a small startup, with a relatively large application (well over 100 Blaze screens and counting), I have to ask myself, does it make sense to invest more in Blaze and take on something like ViewModel or should I invest that time (money) into the migration to React?
Hopefully packages like ViewModel will come along that will make React easier like they have with Blaze.