This is definitely something we try to be aware of as we make changes. The elegant simplicity is what drew most of us to React in the first place. However we h

This is definitely something we try to be aware of as we make changes. The elegant simplicity is what drew most of us to React in the first place. However we have found over the years that following that simple model leads to more complicated application code and some problems are hard to solve. So we're trying to address them. React itself is getting a little more complicated, but our hope is that it makes your apps overall simpler and with fewer quirks to learn to make a full-featured app.