Been a huge React/SPA fan for many years, until the realization began to creep on me that building them was actually harder than building C++ MFC desktop applic

Been a huge React/SPA fan for many years, until the realization began to creep on me that building them was actually harder than building C++ MFC desktop applications (which I did back in the 2000's). Declarative markup was supposed to reduce cognitive load, but it now feels like the interplay between the declarative part of UI development (component markup) and the procedural part (event handling and state) has slowly morphed into something more complex than simplly developing the UI procedurally. Back in the day (I was a junior dev) this was easier than grappling with React hooks today: BOOL CMainDialog::OnInitDialog() { CDialogEx::OnInitDialog(); m_pPropertySheet = new CMyPropertySheet(_T("My Tabbed Dialog"), this); m_pPropertySheet->Create(this, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT); CRect rectMainDialog; GetClientRect(&rectMainDialog); CRect rectPropertySheet(10, 10, rectMainDialog.Width() - 20, rectMainDialog.Height() - 20); m_pPropertySheet->MoveWindow(rectPropertySheet); return TRUE; }