Yeah, as someone who started out in JS with procedural jQuery, moved onto prototype overloading shenanigans with classes, and now React with functional componen

Yeah, as someone who started out in JS with procedural jQuery, moved onto prototype overloading shenanigans with classes, and now React with functional components - the JS ecosystem and tooling is still a huge mess, but I wouldn't want to go back to jQuery or prototype class hacks. At least a modern React codebase has a whiff of engineering to it. No matter how carefully we did stuff the old way at the companies I worked for, it sooner or later became an unmaintainable mess of hacks and overrides.