[ianbicking]

I've been using Preact signals, which are also usable in React (though admittedly I haven't tried to use them). I've found them to be much more pleasant than useState (though I reflexively continue to use useState). I also use a pretty lazy pattern where I allow large portions of an application to rerender when state changes (implicitly by letting prop changes percolate through). For simple apps this works really well, and for complex apps it still works. Like I have an app with 200Mb of rendered DOM nodes that get rerendered from the root when anything changes, and it's totally fine. I wouldn't ship that app widely, but for internal use it's 100% fine.