Good job. I'm astonished at how just about every developer I have run across doesn't understand how to program with state machines, opting instead for a horrid

Good job. I'm astonished at how just about every developer I have run across doesn't understand how to program with state machines, opting instead for a horrid rat's nest of millions (it feels like) of state variables, functions that modify different but overlapping sets of those variables, etc.