"Stateful" doesn't mean "bad". I know functional programming is all the rage right now, but being stateless doesn't turn magically something into a better versi

"Stateful" doesn't mean "bad". I know functional programming is all the rage right now, but being stateless doesn't turn magically something into a better version of something stateful. If the stateful version is better integrated, have a heavier stateless version is not going to make your code better.