[codeflo]

It’s often not even that much manual housekeeping. If you follow the second advice, then ESLint will do a fine job of telling you exactly what’s missing or superfluous.

(I argue that ESLint is almost required when working with React. You can turn off its weirder other rules if they become an annoyance, but the hook rules are golden.)

No, I think the problem is the combination of closures, mutability and identity. Very few other things in programming punish you that harshly (and subtly) if you don’t have a crystal clear understanding of all three concepts.

[latchkey]

ESLint is fantastic, but what would be more golden is unit tests failing or code not compiling. It is almost like hooks need to be written in a meta language like JSX so that they can be compiled and thus failed when written poorly.