My junior developers started to come to me with the question: how can I do this without useEffect? Because they already know that their PR will be rejected. Us

My junior developers started to come to me with the question: how can I do this without useEffect? Because they already know that their PR will be rejected. Usually we can figure it out within a few minutes, and make everything less complicated. People are just way too much thinking imperatively, like decades of OOP thought them (and many of their educators). Most naive useEffects are just masked derived state.