React + classes made sense. Redux was hard to use. All react needed was a simple state management solution that didn't take 500 loc across multiple files and a

React + classes made sense. Redux was hard to use. All react needed was a simple state management solution that didn't take 500 loc across multiple files and a ton of useless object copying to make a page full of form elements work. Instead it got a complete paradigm shift to a leaky abstraction. Not that the previous abstraction wasn't leaky, it was alwayz super easy to have components re-render when not necessarily.