You’re conflating clarifying intent with outright deception. The react team is trying to clarify how useEffect is intended to be used because it’s so frequently

You’re conflating clarifying intent with outright deception. The react team is trying to clarify how useEffect is intended to be used because it’s so frequently misused. The fact that it’s a possibly a poorly designed abstraction that is ripe for misuse is not really relevant to the discussion imo. Don’t take my word for it though. Dan Abramov himself has said pretty much what I’m saying (you’d have to find it on Twitter). Ken C Dodds shared a talk (not run by him) called “Goodbye UseEffect”. Look this stuff up if you haven’t. It’s out there. There are often better ways than useEffect. And when those don’t work you can always use the esc… well you get the idea. EDIT: spelling