I don't think you're arguing in good faith. > Proxies have been around for at least a decade Having Proxy described in ES5 standard and having it supported in

I don't think you're arguing in good faith. > Proxies have been around for at least a decade Having Proxy described in ES5 standard and having it supported in browsers is two different things. IE market share at that time was around 30-40%. > non state variables also exist in React functional components and have dramatically different behavior than state variables Stateful functional components were introduced in 2018 (React 16). I'm talking about 2011-2013.