Clearly some quite senior developers there. Makes me wonder if the people hating on state machines have been at the mercy of junior devs or people trying it out

Clearly some quite senior developers there. Makes me wonder if the people hating on state machines have been at the mercy of junior devs or people trying it out for the first time, instead of a well planned state machine by someone with experience. Full disclosure, I think I wrote my first state machine in around 1996. So yea... Grey hair etc. Also it was a big part of my computer science degree, studied formally, so perhaps that's why I'm biased in favour of them.