[colinta]

Yes, it's bad code, and aren't we all having fun laughing at the anonymous dev who wrote it. However, I've seen this kind of code in the wild, and I'd be shocked if you hadn't, too. _Who_ wrote it matters a lot less than the fact that _so many people_ write it. I think that React has optimized for developer velocity, but the primitives make it so easy to shoot yourself in the foot, that in a large codebase with lots of devs, it becomes hard to avoid.