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I think it's more than the median developer, and I think part of it may be due to React being a victim of its own success in some ways. The scope of requirements for many kinds of common hooks has expanded dramatically. Yesterday I found a problem in a hook that is part of a library downloaded 1M+ times a week.

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IMO it's more like anyone who doesn't spend over 50% of their time thinking about React re-renders whenever they're in a React component. The level of effort to properly use hooks is insane, so them being touted as a "less boilerplate!" way of writing "more functional" (literally the opposite in practice) code is egregious.

I meant for this to be included in the scope of my comment but I was short on time. You stated it better, and you’re completely right. The problem I was alluding to was related to a hook deciding when to rerender based on dependency lists. It was setup such that some people may expect it to rerender in a certain case and others may not, and it wasn’t an uncommon or excessively complicated use-case.

React can’t win here because they have a hard stance on when to value performance (avoiding re-renders) vs. convenience (ease of abstraction usage).

because they don't have a hard stance*

important typo there.

Yep, here is the React Router team getting it wrong(among other things): https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/issues/7634

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