I think lifecycle methods in general, no matter what the framework is, are a suboptimal way of doing things. React works quite differently and shoehorning it in

I think lifecycle methods in general, no matter what the framework is, are a suboptimal way of doing things. React works quite differently and shoehorning it into a lifecycle thing was holding it back, or at least that's how I feel. YMMV. At least it looks like we agree that React is a decent framework :-) That said, for us devs who do both native and JS code, the condescending part is quite hilarious as well ;-)