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I am also 29 and I'm old enough to remember Dawson's Creek, but I don't watch a lot of TV so I've never seen it.

This may come across as naive, but could you expand on the significance of this issue for people who don't use React every day? I see that lots of people think this way about Hooks, so I'm honestly just curious about what React users think is such a big deal

You are describing a case where the desire paths are undesirable, as they may allow litter or vegetation growth, or hasten erosion of soil.

However, when you mention "even tell what the official trail is" is a desire path still desirable in this case? I mean, if no one knows there is an official trail what purpose does the desire path serve? Or is your concern about having interesting vegetation or whatever spoiled by the desire path?

I wonder if there is an optimum amount of desire paths -- where it is still possible to follow the official trail, but interesting diversions are also allowed.