I’m not saying the first example is hard to _understand_. I’m saying that it’s hard to be confident it works or debug when it has a bad visual output because th

I’m not saying the first example is hard to _understand_. I’m saying that it’s hard to be confident it works or debug when it has a bad visual output because the unnecessary statefulness creates compounding mistakes over time. My second example (that doesn’t have this problem) is pretty much what you wrote.