I recently had a little feud with the developers of react-native and fresco (the Facebook image loading library) because of their extensive use of Finalizers:

I recently had a little feud with the developers of react-native and fresco (the Facebook image loading library) because of their extensive use of Finalizers: https://github.com/facebook/fresco/issues/1363 https://github.com/facebook/fresco/issues/1363 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8780 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8780 Apart from being unreliable, bad design, it slows GC and instantiation by orders of magnitude, which I considered important, but they did not. I added a comment about how uninstalling the Facebook app improves the battery life of a phone dramatically, that I deleted afterwards because it was too flamy. I don't expect this to get fixed ever :(.