Your answered yourself there. It's not only about input focus, it could be anything really, like loading state, form values, progress indicator, etc. People wil

Your answered yourself there. It's not only about input focus, it could be anything really, like loading state, form values, progress indicator, etc. People will be basically building yet another framework at the end. React is not the only solution, there are plenty of lighter alternatives. OP's solution is just very type-unsafe.