honestly React Hooks and JSX are so fucking annoying. Just let me use god damn JavaScript for fucks sake. All this extra magic with useEffects, new syntax and producing incompatibilities with the regular JS event loop model is soooooo confusing. I now notice because I'm using nodejs a lot where everything is consistent

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Oh you wanna use localstorage in a React Component. Hold on a second, please first use seven of these esoteric functions in our library to render. Then you render it and it performs like shit. 
Oh you wanna style a div? 'style="display: block; color: white;"' oh no sorry that won't work please use object syntax WHY?

Honestly, this entire arc of moving from regular ass lifecycle component to hooks is the perfect metaphor for everything that is wrong with modern day software development dictated by FAANG. Engineers making 500k salaries without skin in the game producing this crap. They have network but no skills

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no dad, Meta hired some god damn academics that introduced ES-incompatible functional programming into react and so now when I use a regular ass web API, I need to be aware of useEffect and state management in react.

When I see that nextjs has a server component where you define server with a template string at the beginning of the function. Burn that shit to the ground and please use the programing language like it was intended. I mean whatever, introduce macros, like do the painful thing and standardize it!