[danabramov]

I mean, I don’t think it’s designed to “put an input on the page”. Tracking things like hover, dirty and pristine states, sync and async validation, etc, is an inherently complex problem.

If you just want to put an input on the page, that’s just three lines with React. (Especially with Hooks.)

[latchkey]

Reading the documentation again, I just remembered this page:

https://reactjs.org/docs/forms.html

Makes my point (happily) moot. You're right. Sorry for the trouble.