I came from the video game world. I used to program for the Playstation 1 and 2. For me, all these reactive frameworks are baffling. Is it weird that I just

I came from the video game world. I used to program for the Playstation 1 and 2. For me, all these reactive frameworks are baffling. Is it weird that I just prefer immediate mode UIs and roll my own state management and "reactivity" on a project by project basis? I may be wrong here, or it could be my age showing, but I feel like explicit UI systems like that might be more verbose, but I find them more accessible to dive into and less "magic". I'm totally lost and baffled by everyone's enthusiasm for these increasingly arcane and complex abstractions. I suppose they are necessities that arise when you reach a scale that I have not yet encountered (I work on small to medium sized teams of a dozen or dozens rather than hundreds of programmers).