One thing I will add is that this paradigm really encourages either making a ton of functions (which IMO makes code flow harder to read for these kinds of low-e

One thing I will add is that this paradigm really encourages either making a ton of functions (which IMO makes code flow harder to read for these kinds of low-effort projects), or having a lot of scoped statements. A good addition would be something like how flutter's LSP-based tools, which I use in Emacs), have a "wrap with widget" auto-refactoring tool, for e.g. when you want to wrap an entire widget tree in a new layout without having to do it manually.