Yeah, I think I over-reacted to the introductory line of 'Ever needed to wire up a confirmation dialog in React?' which colored my reading of the article. The

Yeah, I think I over-reacted to the introductory line of 'Ever needed to wire up a confirmation dialog in React?' which colored my reading of the article. The author explained that it's just a hook to introduce the concept of state machines, but this kind of complexity seems to be cheered on, and you'll easily find code like this, or worse, in production apps.