> Live components are best avoided if possible, in my view. The documentation is quite bullish on them, presenting them as just another thing alongside functional components, but I think they should be more of a last resort, with functional components used whenever possible.

That's an interesting view. I tend to use Live Components whenever I'm rendering a list, because if you don't, you'll quickly notice how the entire list gets re-rendered and sent over the wire whenever one of the elements on the list changes.

Live Components act as a sort of a barrier for this, they have a long-lived persistent ID that uniquely identifies the component, so when you're rendering a list of them, only the modified component gets sent over the wire. The effect this has on bandwidth usage can be dramatic, depending on the number of items in your list.