• React team now actually recommends import * as React from "react"; now. Here's a reference pull request: https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/18102
• React is not an ES6 library, it uses "module.exports = React.default || React" (Node CommonJS) => need Webpack.
• Typescript is strict (follows the rules) when it comes to this, which is why they require you to import * as React from 'react'
• Tree-shaking should work.
• Material-ui also migrated to this syntax.

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