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>It looks to me like we're just throwing that all in the bin for absolutely fuck all.

Welcome to the last 5 years of React development. React was "finished" with 17, but it's now a zombie project being filled with increasingly absurd feature sets serving as a promotion tool for bored Meta devs.

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For me the start of the decline was actually React 16.8 with hooks.

No accounting for taste, I suppose. For me, hooks were when React got amazing.

No accounting for taste, I suppose. For me, class components were absolutely horrid and hooks simply made it less horrid by comparison. I guess anything can seem amazing after you've been stuck in knee-deep mud.

Hooks were how they re-added necessary functionality to function components that class components already had. They definitely didn't think it through.

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