Suspense, itself, is somewhere in the range of “uninteresting” to “neutral”, in my opinion. Its direct use case would probably have been better solved by: 1. P

Suspense, itself, is somewhere in the range of “uninteresting” to “neutral”, in my opinion. Its direct use case would probably have been better solved by: 1. Providing a general signal to reuse the existing DOM node (or subtree, but that’s less useful) without performing any render logic. 2. Allowing components to use built-in suspension semantics (generators, async/await). The former would have other really useful applications, like partial/selective hydration. The latter is closer to both the language and the original spirit of React, which embraced being close to the language. (Who ever thought “throw a Promise” for meaningful control flow before this?) That said, it’s pretty clear from what React team has discussed since Suspense was introduced that it’s part of a larger strategy. Specifically: React Server Components. They’re laying the groundwork for that now, in stabilizing Suspense SSR. I’m more interested in a less sophisticated solution, but it’s pretty clear RSC is both where React is heading and requires a more opinionated foundation like Suspense. > difficult-to-track-down ways because of how errors are propagated with suspense I suspect this has more to do with concurrent rendering generally, than with Suspense itself. Debugging concurrency is harder in general. React's simplistic top-down rendering model was successful in part because it was simplistic and top-down. - - - All of that may not be justified for your needs! React is positioned for a very specific set of use cases (even if it’s over-used for similar-looking ones). You may find you’re more comfortable in a more simplistic VDOM (and that’s okay!) or a library based on reactivity (if so, and if you’re coming from familiarity with React, I’d suggest giving SolidJS[1] a look; its rendering model is much closer to the DOM). I’ll also mention that I’ve spent more time with Preact than React, and have found its Suspense implementation much easier to work with and debug. 1: https://www.solidjs.com/ https://www.solidjs.com/