refine decoupled UI. It now just supports ant design but will support more UI frameworks on the roadmap.
state management is so much easier than react-admin (redux). refine use react-query for state management. so many features out-of-the-box (pooling, initial data, cache management, etc...).
refine makes extensive use of hooks as a default way for interacting with your components. React admin has hooks too but heavily uses components.
Lastly, react-admin has always been an inspiration for us. a great tool but now we think it will change