[glenjamin]

I think part of the reason some people feel this way about Om is that it was built as an experiment - specifically an experiment about handling immutable state in React.

I find that Om has very strong opinions about doing state the clojure way, but is a very thin wrapper around the rest of React's API - which leads to a feeling of inconsistency.

Some of the stuff David's suggested will be part of "Om next" I think will address this.

[bostonOU]

The inconsistency part makes sense, I guess I just never thought it was a big deal. If you're going to use WillMount, it's either going to be with reify (Om) or meta (Reagent). Doesn't seem like an important distinction to me, but obviously it is to some people. And that's totally legitimate.