Comment by tmstieff

I'm working on a codebase that evolved at the same pace as React, but without any thought for idiomatic principals. As a result, you have class-based components, purely functional components, hook based components, HOCs, Redux state passed in through the older functional way, Redux state passed in through an HOC, styled components, traditional CSS styled components, and anything else you can think of that was in vogue at some point. It's a mediocre code base that generally works as advertised, but the performance is trash due to misuse of styled components, and the state management is a nightmare to traverse. I think this is the reality of a lot of 3 - 5 year old React frontends, and it has definitely soured my opinion on React / Redux a bit. I'm not sure if this effects other frontend frameworks as much, but it does seem like React was always pushing for a "new way to do things" every year.