Vite has its own app generators for this list of frontend frameworks out of the box. "Others" include even more + there are TS templates.

Vite is simple to config, uses esbuild by default under the hood and is compatible with rollup plugins. It's also the base for SvelteKit (which is more opinionated, less configurable and have server support which we don't need, I use Vite in Svelte template).

Rollup and Vite together have more downloads then esbuild. Part of esbuild downloads are Vite downloads. Probably, some other downloads are other tools that use esbuild.

Vite has much more stars on GitHub than esbuild and it more contributors

I have a half-working Create Socket App tool experiment as a wrapper over Vite, will have a full-working prototype soon with dev server support and hopefully with Hot Module Replacement as well!